Kinect hacked days after release

I've been waiting for this to happen.
But i didn't think it would happen this quickly.
This is for the kinect controller to work with a pc.
Just windows os at the moment but linux and mac hacks are on thier way.

Microsoft's Kinect controller has been hacked only a few days after it officially went on sale.

Code to control the motion-capture device has been produced that allows it to be used with a PC rather than the Xbox games console.

Please link HERE for the full story

This was inevitable.
Second line

This is a 'good' hack. I was hoping it was going to be related to a security flaw so that Microsoft and Kinect would get shaken up.

The whole thing is very suspicious. When I logged into my Xbox and was told to read the T&C and Privacy document I for some reason actually did it, when usually I don't. What I read shocked me.
This was only hours after it came out mind you, long before it was on the Internet.

It says it will randomly record video and sound to "help" Microsoft make better products. Weird stuff.

reply to post by Nventual


Are you serious? I cannot be comfortable with the idea that it might be taking random pictures of me and my family in the privacy of our living room. Its one thing to use search phrases and cookies off of your computer to direct ads at you. It's a whole new ballgame when the can see what you wear, eat and drink, what your kids play with, what the inside of your house looks like. Not to mention the chances of them aquiring personal and sensitive information from the various sound bites they may record.

Anything is legal now as long as you've devoted a few scentences of fine print in your T&C to cover your ass. And as long as people buy these products, corporations will stop at nothing to infiltrate every aspect of your life.

It's a sad world we live in.

I would think that knowing that it records from time to time, would make users use this to their advantage (or at the very least have some fun with this)

Have a skeleton sitting on the couch, having the camera pointed towards another screen with nasty porn running, im sure others could come up with some better/funnier instances.

Oh yeah, before I forget,
# MICROSOFT. there I said it

The fact that this "hack" was manifested so quickly after the release leads me to believe that it was not at all a hack, but was intended. Perhaps it was meant to appear as a "hack". The portions of the T&C's that speak of "helpful" periodic video/sound recordings now also apply to PC's.

Not an external hack imo

I do not see a problem , just turn the kinect off (as in power off or even take the cable from the plug if you want to be sure that it does not "catch" you in some sensitive moment ) and there is no way it will have some hidden battery in order to spy on You .. Heh I mean I like a good rant about corporations as the next guy , but sometimes the solution is simple .

reply to post by Thill


Obviously turn it off, but what about when its on? My point was that they will still be able to take pictures of the inside of your home and whatever you are doing while in it. I dont care if I am just sitting on the couch reading a book while my kid plays x-box. I dont need "helpful" pictures of myself relaxing in my pj's being sent off to some corporation to help them make more money. The line needs to be drawn somewhere, and I say it's at my front door. Of course, thats just me, and I just wont buy one. Problem solved.

Sorry to be going off topic...

having a device that takes pictures or video when it wants is asking for trouble my neighbor took her lap top to the shop last year for some work it has a webcam on it . she always leaves it on even when she is not using it and suprise suprise she showed up on one of the sites you go to that has voyeur pics and video posted on it. they had several videos and 40 pics of her getting nude or coming out of adjoining bathroom. almost her whole pregnancy was documented and who knows if they caught her 6 year old on camera coming out of shower too. turns out a tech at computer store loaded a remote program that gave him webcam access. needless to say her new computer has no webcam on it. this is just one occurrence but if idiots are hacking these devices u know the goverment is too.

Might be slightly out of topic , but still covers the "kinect hacked" theme , so please do not shoot

The title of todays 'seminar' is : Creating 3D Holographic Videos with Microsoft Kinect

And the link to the video is here : gizmodo.com...


Now , it only took a few days to get pretty interesting stuff out of the kinect , now imagine what else people might come up with

reply to post by Hatcookie


Exactly like you stated , just do not buy it and the problem is solved . Until we are forced to utilize such tech that openly admits to recording while it is on , I do not have any problems with it, because buying it and knowing about it I accept that fact.