[ale] [OT] xbox requires access to user email account?!?!?

[Jim Kinney]

Kid made a windows live account. Movung into online gaming territory.
On Aug 7, 2011 7:05 PM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just create a Windows Live ID[1] and quit being a dick about it. All
> it is used for is logging into the Xbox Live service. I use a Hotmail
> account that won't even work if I try to login to Hotmail (they
> disable Hotmail accounts after a period of inactivity).
>
> [1] --
https://accountservices.passport.net/ppnetworkhome.srf?vv=1100&mkt=EN-US&lc=1033
>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 17:08, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So I put my foot down about even having an xbox in the house but was
>> over-ridden by wife and kid with his own funds.
>>
>> During the network connection setup it was time to create an xbox live
>> account. It asked for the email of the user.
>>
>> Then it asked for the password for the email account.
>>
>> um. hello?!?
>>
>> So if someone has a hotmail or other microsoft account then they already
>> have access to their account contents. But my kid doesn't _have_ a
microsoft
>> account. gmail, yes.
>>
>> So he can't go forward 'cause there's no way in hell I'm letting him put
in
>> his gmail password without him having a microsoft account of some kind.
>>
>> He just got a hard lesson on why Dad doesn't trust that company with any
>> thing.
>>
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>> James P. Kinney III
>>
>> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
>> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
>> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
>> - 2011 Noam Chomsky
>>
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>>
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