This Toy illegally Spied on 6.4 Million Children
7,541,922
Published 2022-06-14
….All before the age of 24.
Today we are talking about the hacker Slipstream.
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Sources
Vtech FAQ
www.vtech.com/en/press_release/2018/faq-about-cybe…
Verge
www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18286027/microsoft-nint…
BBC
www.bbc.com/news/technology-42620717
Troy Hunt
www.troyhunt.com/when-children-are-breached-inside…
Vice
www.vice.com/en/article/xygg9w/vtech-hacker-explai…
ArsTechnica
arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/man…
Wired
www.wired.co.uk/article/vtech-hack-arrest-uk-man
All Comments (21)
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Small correction, a Flash login form is not especially vulnerable to SQL injections. Nothing client-side can help you against those, not Flash, not an HTML form, not JavaScript, reason being that you can't actually control what runs on the clients in any meaningful way. The server the form sends its data to must handle all user input with special care, usually with prepared statements or input filtering.
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Giving young children a device that connects them to the internet, while most of the adults around them don't even know what a phishing attempt is? No way this could go wrong.
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The fact that the hacker who started this entire story is ALSO the hacker who dumped the historic Nintendo Gigaleak is the biggest plot twist of all time holy shit
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If I was a multimillion dollar company, I'd hire this guy for security reasons. He's seriously amazing at what he's done, huge props for the vtech thing too
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You know you're security protocols are broken when even the 21-year-old hacker is like "This is like all kinds of fucked, I should probably tell someone about this."
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That Nintendo hack confirmed that “L is real” in SM64
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So you're telling me this guy is responsible for hacking one of the biggest children's companies in the world, the hacking of Microsoft, the nintendo gigaleak and the only version we have of North Korea's operating system? That's a hell of a track record...
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someone needs to hire him 😭 my jaw dropped when you said he hacked into north korea
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12:52 bro wanted to check if he still had it in him 😭
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Difficult to comprehend the damage Slipstream could have caused if he had malicious intent.
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It always drives me nuts when they "crack down" on hackers that find issues like this, especially when they make it apparent they have morals. They should be hired.
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he hacked into a country. How has he not been hired as head of security somewhere
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Just discovered this channel and it’s an instant sub. Love the editing style
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The fact that VTech is still making camera-based kids toys is wild. Like I'm not surprised since it happened a while ago but still, that seems like SUCH a risky move 😂
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The first line of defence of protecting user data is not storing it in the first place. All the huge companies seem to forget that part.
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"One guy figured out how to run DOOM on it" Of course he did...
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It's kind of insane that there isn't a law around how people's data is stored, the fact they're allowed to root around in our data is even more insane, imagine walking into a shop and they grab all your belonging and then list down all your information. That's literally what happens each time you load up a website.
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Slipstream was genuinely just a curious guy. It's terrifying to think that if someone with malicious intent gained his skill and knowledge, they may have caused a lot of damage.
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This is the most chaotic good person I've ever heard of. I think he is pretty much a cyber Robin Hood. He steals data from the mega companies either to give fans access to things the company didn't want them to (like the Gigaleak), or leaks things to the media to try and get awareness of how messed up these companies are. It makes sense it's illegal but I wish there was a way he could go about this without getting arrested.
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Bro went from 1 to 100 from hacking companies to entire countries
