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Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

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Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

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Post by skunkworks »

EricR23 wrote: post #15

When I was a teenager I found it fun to intentionally infect myself with malware and try to study it. I know realize this wasn't the most responsible thing to do, as I wasn't in a sandboxed environment, but it was a great learning experience and taught me a lot about networking and security. One of the biggest malwares I ever managed to infect myself with was a bot, which caused my computer to become a zombie on a ~1…

This is fantastic. I did the same with a very similar botnet way back when, except my "hello" in IRC wasn't as friendly. Left to eat for an hour, then came back to my hard drive erased. Live and learn...

Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

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Post by sharkweek »

molmalo wrote: post #55

Back in 2000, when I was in high school, I developed a trojan similar to netbus and sub7, but just to use it in the school comp labs. The objective was only to have fun. Telling my friends their login passwords, controling their pcs, (screen streaming, key logging, file management, mouse and kb control, some nice screen effects like making the screen move like ocean waves, launch programs, it was fun, lol). There wer…

Most of the time those moments of getting caught turn into great opportunities to get out of trouble by going white hat for them. I figure if they threatened him with any real punishment, just offer some free security consulting.

Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

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Post by EricR23 »

skunkworks wrote: post #61
EricR23 wrote: post #15

When I was a teenager I found it fun to intentionally infect myself with malware and try to study it. I know realize this wasn't the most responsible thing to do, as I wasn't in a sandboxed environment, but it was a great learning experience and taught me a lot about networking and security. One of the biggest malwares I ever managed to infect myself with was a bot, which caused my computer to become a zombie on a ~1…

This is fantastic. I did the same with a very similar botnet way back when, except my "hello" in IRC wasn't as friendly. Left to eat for an hour, then came back to my hard drive erased. Live and learn...

Thanks! I agree that things like this are pretty fantastic. Part of me misses those days of being so experimental and new to tech. Sorry to hear about your hard drive, though :)

Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

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Post by jackalope »

dsrguru wrote: post #50

Sorry for the tangent, but did the author really have to assert his or her endorsement of Chinese nationalist politics and write "Taiwan, China" instead of the neutral "Taiwan"? Taiwan is not currently controlled by the PRC, regardless of whether or not one believes it "should" be. Taiwan's acting government, the ROC, believes it shouldn't be, and China's government, the PRC, believes it should be. Most Taiwanese peo…

Fellow web developers, I can tell you from experience that you must edit this list before deploying it in an application:

http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/cou...

My understanding is that we have the UN to thank:

http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/...

Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

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Post by molmalo »

sharkweek wrote: post #62
molmalo wrote: post #55

Back in 2000, when I was in high school, I developed a trojan similar to netbus and sub7, but just to use it in the school comp labs. The objective was only to have fun. Telling my friends their login passwords, controling their pcs, (screen streaming, key logging, file management, mouse and kb control, some nice screen effects like making the screen move like ocean waves, launch programs, it was fun, lol). There wer…

Most of the time those moments of getting caught turn into great opportunities to get out of trouble by going white hat for them. I figure if they threatened him with any real punishment, just offer some free security consulting.

Well, we were kids back then, and I think they took it as one of the risks involved in teaching programming. They surely threatened him, but they just wanted us to stop. So, as we knew that if we kept on infecting the pcs, they would punish my friend, we had to stop. But at least we kept some of our benefits (internet access, etc)

Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

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Post by corin_ »

dsrguru wrote: post #59
corin_ wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've told this story once or twice on HN before so apologies for anyone re-reading it, but it seems relevant: I was doing some IPTV stuff in China a couple of years ago and we were warned that, among the things the government would be watching our streams for, was use of the word "Taiwan". We absolutely weren't allowed to use it, instead using "Chinese Taipei". So I'd suggest it could offend some people :)

I spent half a year in China, and I didn't find the word Taiwan as a location offensive to anyone. Could it have been the case that you weren't allowed to say Taiwan specifically when referring to it as a political entity? I was under the impression that Chinese Taipei is the compromise name the two governments agreed on using when referring to Taiwan as an independent entity in sporting events, since having an indep…

Sounds like you know a lot more about it than me, and certainly makes sense - I was at an esports tournament (so would likely follow the rules of sports events), the 2002 World Cyber Games Grand Final. We weren't given any background, just a list of words not to use on air.

Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

dsrguru wrote: post #50

Sorry for the tangent, but did the author really have to assert his or her endorsement of Chinese nationalist politics and write "Taiwan, China" instead of the neutral "Taiwan"? Taiwan is not currently controlled by the PRC, regardless of whether or not one believes it "should" be. Taiwan's acting government, the ROC, believes it shouldn't be, and China's government, the PRC, believes it should be. Most Taiwanese peo…

They are most likely Chinese and consider Taiwan part of China, without thinking about it.

Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

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Post by defen »

dak1 wrote: post #54
dsrguru wrote: post #50

Sorry for the tangent, but did the author really have to assert his or her endorsement of Chinese nationalist politics and write "Taiwan, China" instead of the neutral "Taiwan"? Taiwan is not currently controlled by the PRC, regardless of whether or not one believes it "should" be. Taiwan's acting government, the ROC, believes it shouldn't be, and China's government, the PRC, believes it should be. Most Taiwanese peo…

I noticed that too. There's no reason to not write simply "Taiwan," since that won't offend anyone's sensibilities.

"The island formerly known as Formosa"

Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

tmh88j wrote: post #51

A long time ago (windows 98 I believe) my screen went blank and green text appeared saying "Hello, how are you?" I was about 12 at the time so I had no idea what was going on. I don't recall my response, but I remember the "person" on the other side saying "You left a back door open. Would you like me to close it?" I restarted my computer and I still have no idea what it was. Was this a virus, a hacker, something els…

Probably a worm.

Re: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

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Post by tlrobinson »

jackalope wrote: post #64
dsrguru wrote: post #50

Sorry for the tangent, but did the author really have to assert his or her endorsement of Chinese nationalist politics and write "Taiwan, China" instead of the neutral "Taiwan"? Taiwan is not currently controlled by the PRC, regardless of whether or not one believes it "should" be. Taiwan's acting government, the ROC, believes it shouldn't be, and China's government, the PRC, believes it should be. Most Taiwanese peo…

Fellow web developers, I can tell you from experience that you must edit this list before deploying it in an application: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/cou... My understanding is that we have the UN to thank: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/...

I can confirm, if you don't you will receive angry emails.
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