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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/133508-Five-Year-Old-Boy-Exposes-Xbox-One-Security-Flaw

Kristoffer Von Hassel, of San Diego, just had to enter in a wrong password and then a series of empty spaces to find a backdoor into his dad's Xbox profile.

But thank goodness we can watch TV on it

You realize that this "backdoor" requires being physically on the console where the account is used, right?

It doesn't make it not a back door though, it's just not that useful. Besides if someone did steal a console then there they go not that it matters at that point.

 Kanluwen wrote:
You realize that this "backdoor" requires being physically on the console where the account is used, right?

So this could be reworded then.

It's not a back door, it's a front door that's been left with a key in it.

If you have physical access to a machine you can usually bypass the security of a device. That said this should have been picked up in testing.

Yeah I read about this. A silly mistake on the MS's part.