Disney calling my 11-year-old son a “hacker”
The Disney Company is always so good at accessing one’s inner child. The hope, the joy, the glory of absolute love, family goodness, and everything that sails in it.
So I am thrown a little off course when I hear that Disney may have falsely accused an 11-year-old boy of hacking the Pirates of the Caribbean video game and disabled his account.
Dad does seem like a fair and remarkably balanced chap as he explained: “I can see how at first glance, they might have misinterpreted his chat logs. Another user had made my son aware of a “glitch” (that’s what they called it) that allowed users to rapid fire their cannons.”
We are all insecure in this currently crazy world and any opportunity to rapid fire one’s cannons at least deserves some attention. However, Carson quickly realized that speeding up his firing might require some file-changing. Which is a bad, bad thing to contemplate.
Dad posted the logs from his son’s site to show that Carson was merely asking questions. I post them here for your perusal and edification:
* November 27, 2009 9:35:16 PM PST : when i searched it on the internet it said that i had to hack into some files, is this true?
* November 27, 2009 9:37:33 PM PST : so when i looked it up it said i had to hack into some files to do it, is this true?
* November 27, 2009 9:38:45 PM PST : i searched the glitch up on the internet
* November 27, 2009 9:39:06 PM PST : it said i had to hack into some files to do the glitch, is this true?
* November 27, 2009 9:41:22 PM PST : like i have to go in some files and change them?
However, he says Disney rapid-fired an e-mail that showed the darker side of its piratical nature.
Now I’m sad and have to re-enable his account!
Filed under: Security - @ December 2, 2009 8:31 am