And 11 year olds all know how to make autoexec files..... not
Regardless, many of these publicity stunts are done by giving someone at least the locations to look for backdoors.
It’s the equivalent of you locking up your house, showing a six year old where you keep your spare key hidden, easily with in her reach, and then saying a six year old can bypass the best deadbolts on the market.
I learned Every Command in DOS6.0/6.2 and 6.21 by reading, printing out and practicing them. I had a stack of Tractor Feed Printouts almost 1.5’ thick. I did that with an IBM PS2, 40MB HDD, 4 Meg Memory, 2400 Baud Modem and a Parallel Port back in the late 80’s.
Like the 3rd one with the screen attached to the CPU
I made cables for INTERLINK and created Multiple Boot Choice Menu that had IIRC 8 choices: PS2 Factory, DOS6.xx, INTERSERVER, INTERLINK, Games, WINDOWS 3.0 and WINDOWS 3.11 Boots.
I also INTERLINKED the PS2 to an OLD 8086 PORTABLE that had a 5” Monochrome screen, 20MB HDD, 640 KB Memory (after buying more Chips to Upgrade), 5.25” Dual Floppies, 1 Ser Port, 1 Parallel Port and the Keyboard folded down out of the front to expose the screen snd floppy drives. Also had the Okidata Dot Matrix Printer working too. I did all that just because My Brother-in-Law told Me it wouldn’t ever work. I had no choice but to do it then just to prove him wrong...
Kids these days are Light Years ahead of that in both Hardware and Software.
My Grandson is 16 Months and has already figured out how to make most of My iPhone6S+ do it’s thing.
It’s not that hard to make a simple .bat file if one wanted to get fancy toss in a few CALL , DEL, REN Commands.
I have a geek nephew who definitely could have hacked into anything he wanted at age 11.
He is older now, and doesn’t tell me everything, but I know he works the night shift because no supervisors are there and he can do whatever he wants instead of working.
Why? He automated his computer based work so it is done without requiring any effort on his part. His boss does not know—and he will never share that information with his employer.
Really sharp geeks can do miracles with computers.
