10 Year Old Girl Discovers Hack in Android Game

by davepmoll | August 9, 2011 at 06:49 am
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A 10-year-old girl going by the name of CyFi discovered if she manually changed the clock and disabled the wifi connection, she could speed up the games progress.  She demonstrated her hack at the Las Vegas Defcon convention and later confirmed by independent researchers.

“It was hard to make progress in the game, because it took so long for things to grow. So I thought, 'Why don't I just change the time?'" said CyFi. 

So it's not as if she re-wrote the code or found a backdoor into the game.  But you have to love the simple approach she took to solve this problem.  The clock is slow, let's speed it up!

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Jordan Yerman

I, for one, welcome our new 10-year-old overlords.

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Calling Names

You, my friend, must have been last in line when brains were given.Changing the clock is one of the oldest "hacks" in history and ANY 10 yearss old knows it, and most 8 years olds too.

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