[ttttannebaum]

Edit:

"The exploit is to do with the clock used on devices running the two mobile operating systems, and just as importantly how games use it to aid in gameplay progression. Many of these farm-style games rely on the clock to grow crops the player plants or by signifying general time progression. "

Oh christ, this article is just pure silliness. Ignore the below. And the article itself.

If the hacker and intelligent human being happened to have a penis wouldn't the title be one word shorter?

//this// is an actual real reason why people without Y chromosomes aren't as into tech or the engineering industry; because as soon as they get in, they are pushed into this subset of "girl hackers", "girl geeks".

I understand that it isn't "on-topic" and posts here aren't supposed to be motivated by emotion (especially not anger), but I really expect more from sites getting to the front page here.

[gnoupi]

To be honest, the whole title is silly. Apparently a kid needs to be "bored" to do that. It's obviously an important information. "Zero-day exploit" is also an amazing way to call "changing the hour to make the crops grow faster".

The whole title is a click bait, as we expect some kind of hacker kid prodigy (after all, he was "bored", not actively hacking) who would have found a severe exploit in iOS and Android.

The article can be summed up by "a young kid changes the hour on her device to make the crops grow faster in the game".

(heck, I was changing the date to make my sharewares work longer at the same age and nobody wrote about me)

[dromidas]

The inevitability in the movie Idiocracy is manifesting itself by having "set the clock forward" being considered an incredibly devious hacking technique and labeled as a 0day :P It's good to see that even when everyone born these days are morons that there are still going to be a small subset of people who are more creative and intelligent than the rest.

[gnoupi]

Let's not exaggerate. Just because the article is silly and obviously trying to make something bigger than it actually is doesn't mean that "everyone born these days are morons".

Also, http://xkcd.com/603/