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Learning to be an evil hacker...
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I live in an apartment building with maybe 6 other apartments, most with wifi routers, so I thought it might be fun to hack everyones passwords and then let them know what they needed to do to make their network more secure. Kind of like being a good neighbour.
Turns out the only person with any password sense is me!! I have a 13 digit password mixture of random letters and numbers. Totally impossible to hack. They have passwords like 'password' and 'me' and 'kuwait' and 'secret22'. My dictionary attack, after I'd sniffed the handshake to the router, took a maximum of 2 minutes for any of them. I let them all know the importance of long passwords with mixtures of caps, lowercase and numbers, at least 9 characters long....same for banking passwords.
Next job is to hack into my colleges management system BEFORE they open a student portal next year, just to show them how insecure their network is. As we become very dependent on the network and the system, I think it's pretty important they know the weaknesses. I'm pretty sure, it will amount to the same thing though...pathetic password practice from the user base.
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The director just sent everyone a note saying "Don't allow Feynman to get close to your drawers".
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PS In case I forget, FUCK THATCHER, the most divisive British politician of the 20th Century. My grandparents, who were working class but very right wing (racist and everything) only hated one group more than Thatcher and that was the IRA. They hated them even more when they failed to assassinate her. Not only were they terrorists but they were incompetent terrorists!!
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The weakness is always the password. Doesn't matter what the encoding is, if you have a password less than 8 (or so) characters, your router can be hacked (although most wouldn't spend the time to hack an 8 char password). Like I say, here the norm is 4 chars, at best. Two minutes max to find it.
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ThirstyMan wrote: PS In case I forget, FUCK THATCHER, the most divisive British politician of the 20th Century. My grandparents, who were working class but very right wing (racist and everything) only hated one group more than Thatcher and that was the IRA. They hated them even more when they failed to assassinate her. Not only were they terrorists but they were incompetent terrorists!!
With all of her tax cuts to the rich, can one of them afford to cut off her head, stuff her neck with garlic, and bury her in a spruce box on hallowed ground?
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My old man offered to do that to Richard Nixon's corpse for free. First words out of his mouth when ol' Dick's funeral telecast started was: "How the fuck can we be sure he's dead with a closed casket? I need to see the stake!"SaMoKo wrote: With all of her tax cuts to the rich, can one of them afford to cut off her head, stuff her neck with garlic, and bury her in a spruce box on hallowed ground?
I'm surprised they didn't disinter Reagan's corpse so they could shove Lady Iron Britches' head back up his ass, this time to stay for all eternity.
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Number one on the UK hit parade at the moment is 'Ding Dong The Witch is Dead' from Wizard of Oz. The BBC are refusing to play more than 5s of this song, at any one time, on the grounds that 'it is divisive and shows lack of respect for the dead'.
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