You know, I realized that while Microsoft sounds insane to us geeks, this might make sense if we consider their position and customers.
Microsoft, as best I can tell, tries to maintain a very hard line against cheaters to keep the quality of the Xbox Live service high. If we accept this, and the fact that most of their customers don't know a whole lot about technical things like USB, the initial push against people toying with the Kinect (for fear that they were actually trying to abuse it) and the current repetition about how it hasn't been hacked (because it hasn't been) both make sense.
Microsoft, as best I can tell, tries to maintain a very hard line against cheaters to keep the quality of the Xbox Live service high. If we accept this, and the fact that most of their customers don't know a whole lot about technical things like USB, the initial push against people toying with the Kinect (for fear that they were actually trying to abuse it) and the current repetition about how it hasn't been hacked (because it hasn't been) both make sense.