Ahhh yes, this is a classic tool. Together with John the Ripper this forms the basis of lost sleep in my teenage years.
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It's making me nostalgic for all of the old tools - what was another one, ``john''? Although that seems to have been modernised. https://www.openwall.com/john/
And of course, the CDC's hilarity toolbox: Back Orifice. Being able to eject all the CD-ROM drives in a computer lab together was really worth it.
God I miss those days. And now I feel old, like the father I thought I'd never be.
Nostalgic for an age that I thought was forever. But really, never was.
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you're doing something neat with your Us but I, unfortunately, came of age after lots of the cool times were over. All the hackers got jobs in industry and it feels like if I poke anything that isn't hackthebox I'll either A. have the FBI up my ass immediately or worse, B. have created a record somewhere of having committed one felony or another that will appear at an appropriate time for someone else and inappropria…
You've surely heard about Tor, socks proxies, VPNs, SSH tunnels.
This comes up at "have created a record somewhere of having committed one felony or another that will appear at an appropriate time for someone else and inappropriate time for me."
I.e. you make one opsec mistake now, nobody's perfect - and then many years later when someone will finally care, this will be used to identify you, there's loads of examples like that of investigations/convictions where the people did know how to use "Tor, socks proxies, VPNs, SSH tunnels" and used them properly almost always.
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Combination of 401k growth, having a six figure income, cryptocurrency investments, and early investment in AMD and TSLA and a few side income streams.
Sounds like you owe your success more to WallStreetBets than hacking.
Eh I mined a lot of it and it's thanks to my computer skills that I was able to do so. Most of it was from that.
Also my stock positions predate wsb by like 7 years.
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#127I got expelled from high school because of this program. I'm a millionaire now though so shrug
I was a hair's breadth away from expulsion too - exfiltrated .sam files from a PC in the library on a 3.5" floppy. Seems to be quite common experience judging by this thread. Why did we all get caught? Smart enough to figure that out in your teens, dumb enough to think you can get away with it... In my case I was operating with a dumbass friend who left a "calling card" on one of the compromised machines.
To be honest I fessed up for no reason. All they knew was I logged in to some box. I could have made some stuff up about doing some legitimate work and I'd probably have gotten away with it. At the time I was extremely naive and dumb. My advice to kids is not to stop doing things but to simply downplay what you were doing. "No I wasn't hacking. I was securing the system." Etc. Come up with plausible reasons and the benefit of doubt will generally keep things from escalating beyond the IT staff. Once admins start talking about hacking you've lost the war of words.
It's as much social engineering as anything else.
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Yep, and the password was 'driver'.
Actually it was bhs-2020 still remember it after all these years
At my school the password was the person’s username. Someone guessed it one day. Which in hindsight was inevitable when the login screen was exposed to hundreds of bored kids every day.
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> I'm 28 ... adjunct professor ... We talk about this still. I'm a decade older, and am relieved to see this. > Hackers - the best hacking movie ever made :) Counterpoint: _Sneakers_: the thinking person's hacking movie.
I still vote for Wargames :-)
That’s got data encrypting algorithms, you’ll never get through that!
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#130I haven't thought about Mudge in a long time. If you've ever worked cybersecurity for the government, or in general, you owe him, Brian Oblivion, Space Rogue and the other members of L0pht for opening the door. They were pioneers of responsible disclosure, and brought the problem to light when they testified to Congress in 98 that in 30 minutes they could shut down the Internet. He and the others had uncovered DoS, specifically a BGP DoS that would automatically cascade across the Internet.
Mudge was a musical prodigy and an alum of BBN, one of the key players in creating ARPAnet. His bio is fascinating, and you can find a good treatment of it here: https://www.cybersecurityeducationguides.org/peiter-zatko/