News If you thought that 8 is the smallest age for adversaries and hackers, a 3 year old just proved you wrong.

[Amol S.]

3 Year old locked his dad, out of his iPad for nearly 50 years!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...n-minutes-or-nearly-half-a-century/ar-BBVKsNh

How??? Just how was this 3 year old even smart enough to do this?

 

[Mai72]

Huh? The kid wasn't some kind of genius. He just randomly pressed a bunch of letters/numbers. You do that enough times, and you'll be locked out.

 

[highland145]

A monkay could do it.

 

[Amol S.]

Huh? The kid wasn't some kind of genius. He just randomly pressed a bunch of letters/numbers. You do that enough times, and you'll be locked out.

I know that part.. but for that long, I thought Apples default is like Androids... 10 min max, or erase all data????????

 

[ultimatebob]

Well... technically, the kid was trying to brute force the password. That makes him more of a script kiddie than a real hacker, though