quote: Thats verily the definition of conventional hacking, exploiting security vulnerabilities, cracking is when you break past otherwise secure defenses as I understand it.
It's not exactly "exploiting security vulnerabilities" to use your own password to access files on your own machine.
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Now, come on, PSI. Seriously. A password is a *major* vulnerability. Lock up your machine without anyway for anyone to access it: that's secure, baby.
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quote:Except the way he said it was funny, you'res isn't.
I didn't find his presentation the least bit funny. As I said before, it was a waste of time to watch it.
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But you need to concede that clearly quite a few people found it funny, clearly an issue of whom the targetted audience is/was.
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at CT. There have been days when I was so mad at the time I'd wasted on the internet that I seriously considered "encrypting" my password with some random keyboard mashing. If I ever disappear and don't come back, now you know what happened.
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For all my online ARGs I use a password that's so long and complex (40+ characters, upper and lowercase, symbols) that I have to copy/paste it every time I have to type it in.
Reason: A lot of players think that brute forcing a password site is an "in game" solution to things, even if the password prompt has nothing to do with the game. For example, I've had them try to brute force my site's FTP site because they somehow thought it was the next logical step.
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I agree, I might have found this story funny given a better delivery, and if the vengeance enacted by the hacker had amounted to more than simply naming and shaming, and throwing up a few pictures of the guy which weren't even that funny.
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Hee hee. I would like to point out that this time, the guy in question IS the thief. And while the article says the guy hasn't gone to the police, technically, Macbook Airs cost enough for this to be grand larceny.
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at CT. There have been days when I was so mad at the time I'd wasted on the internet that I seriously considered "encrypting" my password with some random keyboard mashing. If I ever disappear and don't come back, now you know what happened.
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