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Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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Re: Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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Post by eli »

noahc wrote: post #47
ErrantX wrote: post #8

This could very likely be a carefully (and cleverly constructed) identity. This girl might not exist; but because we all really really want a 16 year old girl to be the hacker the discrepancies are glossed over (the art of a good lie is not giving too much detail and letting other people's imagination fill the gaps). On the other hand the personality strikes me strongly as female, so if it is an facade it is a very w…

When I had a lot more time, I would go into Yahoo chat and basically phish for pedophiles usernames/passwords. I can tell you that a "hehe" after anything will set the hook. I could on average phish about an account a minute and I was never figured out. I only fell out of character once to warn an 18 year old kid, that talking to 14 year old girls sexually online wasn't the best use of his time. He freaked out and th…

That is... pretty creepy.

Re: Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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Post by chc »

jrockway wrote: post #35
Estragon wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention, it must be humiliating for HBGary to be thought of the world as hackable by a 16 year-old girl.

Why? Kids are smart and have time. 16 is not that young. I knew how to do SQL injection and buffer overflow exploitation at that age, although I also knew not to use those skills against someone who didn't ask for it. Basically, everyone is excited because she's a girl.

As one or two articles have pointed out, that kind of skill is generally lacking in girls in our culture. So it is somewhat noteworthy, I guess.

Re: Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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Post by awj »

noahc wrote: post #47
ErrantX wrote: post #8

This could very likely be a carefully (and cleverly constructed) identity. This girl might not exist; but because we all really really want a 16 year old girl to be the hacker the discrepancies are glossed over (the art of a good lie is not giving too much detail and letting other people's imagination fill the gaps). On the other hand the personality strikes me strongly as female, so if it is an facade it is a very w…

When I had a lot more time, I would go into Yahoo chat and basically phish for pedophiles usernames/passwords. I can tell you that a "hehe" after anything will set the hook. I could on average phish about an account a minute and I was never figured out. I only fell out of character once to warn an 18 year old kid, that talking to 14 year old girls sexually online wasn't the best use of his time. He freaked out and th…

> With all that said, anyone know of a way I could use my experiences and ability at social engineering online in a legit manner?

See if Chris Hansen is hiring?

Re: Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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Post by noonespecial »

weego wrote: post #14
ErrantX wrote: post #8

This could very likely be a carefully (and cleverly constructed) identity. This girl might not exist; but because we all really really want a 16 year old girl to be the hacker the discrepancies are glossed over (the art of a good lie is not giving too much detail and letting other people's imagination fill the gaps). On the other hand the personality strikes me strongly as female, so if it is an facade it is a very w…

Indeed, and there are 2 references in the various tales of a good understanding and practice of social engineering, and anyone with that understanding would not go around telling the press genuine background stories that could start to be pieced together. But then of course the smartest ones are the people no one will ever hear about, so who knows.

Oh.. I know this one. It turns out to be Kevin Spacey in the end.

Re: Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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Post by sane_delirium »

citricsquid wrote: post #50
nrkn wrote: post #40

Using the quotes from the article, however too few words to analyze properly, so inconclusive, but still... From http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php Genre: Informal Female = 171 Male = 182 Difference = 11; 51.55% Verdict: Weak MALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. From http://bookblog.net/gender/analysis.php Female Score: 94 Male Score: 133 The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Everything I write comes out as female and I'm... not. I wouldn't trust that (or maybe I should question my gender...)

It was pretty accurate for me, and I've used several examples.

Re: Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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Post by nyellin »

noahc wrote: post #47
ErrantX wrote: post #8

This could very likely be a carefully (and cleverly constructed) identity. This girl might not exist; but because we all really really want a 16 year old girl to be the hacker the discrepancies are glossed over (the art of a good lie is not giving too much detail and letting other people's imagination fill the gaps). On the other hand the personality strikes me strongly as female, so if it is an facade it is a very w…

When I had a lot more time, I would go into Yahoo chat and basically phish for pedophiles usernames/passwords. I can tell you that a "hehe" after anything will set the hook. I could on average phish about an account a minute and I was never figured out. I only fell out of character once to warn an 18 year old kid, that talking to 14 year old girls sexually online wasn't the best use of his time. He freaked out and th…

Interesting. What was your motivation?

Re: Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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Post by nyellin »

noahc wrote: post #47
ErrantX wrote: post #8

This could very likely be a carefully (and cleverly constructed) identity. This girl might not exist; but because we all really really want a 16 year old girl to be the hacker the discrepancies are glossed over (the art of a good lie is not giving too much detail and letting other people's imagination fill the gaps). On the other hand the personality strikes me strongly as female, so if it is an facade it is a very w…

When I had a lot more time, I would go into Yahoo chat and basically phish for pedophiles usernames/passwords. I can tell you that a "hehe" after anything will set the hook. I could on average phish about an account a minute and I was never figured out. I only fell out of character once to warn an 18 year old kid, that talking to 14 year old girls sexually online wasn't the best use of his time. He freaked out and th…

Interesting. What was your motivation?

Re: Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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Post by oniTony »

Retric wrote: post #49
SageRaven wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In light of recent Anon-related police raids, I would hope that anyone supposedly as savvy as "k" would rely on full-disk crypto as opposed to foolishly going the destruction of evidence route. I've used FDE for many years simply out of precaution against theft.

In the US fill disk crypto is useless. They will just hold you in jail until you hand them the password.

This is where TrueCrypt comes in. If you are being extorted to reveal a password, you supply one that loads a "clean" OS/filesystem.

Re: Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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Post by noahc »

nyellin wrote: post #56
noahc wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I had a lot more time, I would go into Yahoo chat and basically phish for pedophiles usernames/passwords. I can tell you that a "hehe" after anything will set the hook. I could on average phish about an account a minute and I was never figured out. I only fell out of character once to warn an 18 year old kid, that talking to 14 year old girls sexually online wasn't the best use of his time. He freaked out and th…

Interesting. What was your motivation?

I'm big on systems and testing and generally more interested in people than the technical nature of technology. I just wanted to see if it would work. I did this off and on from the time I was 14 to 17 or so. I lived literally in the middle of nowhere, where the nearest town had about 27 people. It was an interesting way to spend time in high school.

To me it was a big experiment to maximize conversion and minimize detectability.

The biggest take away from this is that I realized that social interactions have formulas and you can take advantage of those formulas. You can also find shortcuts to the formula or make certain parts of the formula more important or less important based on context.

Re: Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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Post by noahc »

noahc wrote: post #47
ErrantX wrote: post #8

This could very likely be a carefully (and cleverly constructed) identity. This girl might not exist; but because we all really really want a 16 year old girl to be the hacker the discrepancies are glossed over (the art of a good lie is not giving too much detail and letting other people's imagination fill the gaps). On the other hand the personality strikes me strongly as female, so if it is an facade it is a very w…

When I had a lot more time, I would go into Yahoo chat and basically phish for pedophiles usernames/passwords. I can tell you that a "hehe" after anything will set the hook. I could on average phish about an account a minute and I was never figured out. I only fell out of character once to warn an 18 year old kid, that talking to 14 year old girls sexually online wasn't the best use of his time. He freaked out and th…

Previous comment here related to multiple down votes I received. I jumped the gun and lesson learned.
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