When the news came out that hackers had jumped on the opportunity to tinker with Microsoft’s new Kinect game controller — making it do “things it really wasn’t meant to do,” in the words of a New York Times reporter — most of the coverage was very inside-baseball. Some stories claimed that the hackers’ activity was a source of great consternation to Microsoft. Others quoted company officials claiming Microsoft had deliberately “left a back door open” to allow for such user creativity.
Microsoft’s Kinect and the Invisible Handshake
When the news came out that hackers had jumped on the opportunity to tinker with Microsoft’s new Kinect game controller — making it do “things it really wasn’t meant to do,” in the words of a New York Times reporter — most of the coverage was very inside-baseball. Some stories claimed that the hackers’ activity […]
December 14, 2010
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