You ever know a Hacker (nrr)
jlee
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silly question I know...I just had to take a company mandated on-line training seminar regarding IT security and what not. Rather ho-hum as to be suspected, but one of its main points was discussing the frequency/severity of hacker-related events for companies and persons. Which made me curious as to if anyone I know has ever really been in contact with a professional hacker (not just stealing some random persons CC number or some other like felony, but actually a "this is my day job" style hacker).i've come across many types of professionals in my life (lawyers, drug dealers, teachers, etc) but none who ever has claimed to be a Hacker. Given that each year produces at least one big-budget movie where a "hacker" has a large role and contributes to the demise of the world, I would think there would be a larger number of persons at least claiming to be a Hacker?who got gems? or perhaps i should ask:00101110100010101010100001111100101????and before anyone else does it....
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The A*e once asked me to find a hacker to take down a Canadian website that was bootlegging K-O shit. So I asked Ken Ken to do it as a favor and he was like, "I can easily get $10k for that over here".
Would someone openly admit that's what they do anyway, wouldn't you want to keep it quite?
Saying that 'they' do have some sort of AGM now.
The Chinese have a strong government sponsored hacker team, that's permanently trying to, well, 'hack stuff'. So I presume most of developed countries have something similar, and most big business also, so there must be a fair few out there.
Well, considering hacking (or as I learned in IT security class, "Cracking," the bad kind of hacking) is a serious crime, I'm not surprised dudes keep it on the low. If you ask a mob guy what he does for a living, he's not going to say "I shake down dudes for protection money. Beat 'em up and break appendages. What do you do?"
Best Name/Description combo EVAR!!!
word J_f. Happy belated birthday too, and sorry for not making it out on Friday. I forgot that going out in H-Town meant driving 1hr to get to said destination. Stayed in and ate Whataburger instead. Probably not as fun, but satisfying in its own way.
for the sake of people not thinking i am completely dense. YES I REALIZE THAT MOST HACKERS DONT GO AROUND TELLING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DO.
But since I know soulstrut is full of seedy individuals, i figured a few of you probably have come across these types of dudes in your life.
just looking for some gems on a rather boring Monday at work.
Appreciated! I'm not sweating it. All to the goodage.
This was an amazing article I read over the weekend:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-01/ff_max_butler
I think the one in the AC is a specifically British blue box. The one were used was popularized in 2600 Magazine.
i wonder if red boxs still work?
None of them have worked since the data line and the operator signal lines were separated. Since then, when you use them, the operator interrupts asks you to deposit change and when you flip out the blue box and start signaling, the operator can hear that audibly and will bust you.
I never knew that trick. Once my blue box was irrelevant I moved on to another trick. On certain non-major telecom payphones there was trick where you call any 1-800 number, have the person on the other end the disconnect the call and you would get an operator's tone and you could dial anywhere without signaling. That worked well when I wanted to dial international. The problem was that those phones kept getting bought out by major telecoms or pulled from the location, so eventually I stopped even trying and started messing with the voip client in ICQ.
- spidey
I've read that hackers can be paid some serious loot in Russia and are sought out in universities by both the mob and govt., and that hacking is becoming a sort of weapon. Just sayin'
All of the new phones shut off the phone mic until the call is connected, rendering redboxes obsolete.