There are many ways to soft-brick a device to the point where it cannot easily be used again, and “Cloud locks” or parental locks are probably at the top of the list here. [eWastelander…
There are some who pick up old sofas in garbage dumpsters and then there is eWastelander who spends his time recovering electronic equipment for his future buggers. His last catch is an Xbox 360 at $15, found at the bottom of the "faulty" radius of a game store that sold out at half price. It starts perfectly but his only flaw is a parental control locked by a code no longer known to anyone. It's a model E, the last of the range, released about …