After watch Die Hard 4

kstan · 07-26-2007, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by vangelis

Nowadays hacking is (I think mostly, I don't know) done with social engineering.

Why all this hassle of brute forcing remotely a server to gain access, risking being found if you don't delete the traces on time when you just have to call the user tell him that you are at a remote site (out of company) a new it technician and if you don't do a job that requires the password the boss will kill you.

This is marketting, no way general people only want to see social engineering, what they want to see is fancy hacking skill. Eventhought it is not real.

easuter · 07-27-2007, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by taylor_venable

Reminds me of the very recent Penny Arcade comic about the very same: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16

Haha! That about sums it up!

baikonur · 07-27-2007, 02:08 AM

remember the movie "war games"?

it was about a boy who hacked into the pentagon's nuclear war simulator or something like that. however, when the camera zoomed in on his monitor while hacking, you could see.

c:\dir

and the resulting output scrolling over the screen.

kstan · 07-27-2007, 02:13 AM

Oh Really? HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!

vangelis · 07-27-2007, 04:22 AM

we need screenshots from this!

anyone?

asuresh12 · 07-27-2007, 04:32 AM

hahahahahahahaha

danaketh · 07-27-2007, 05:52 AM

omg! post ti.., eh, screenshot...

btw: but it's good... those who believe the films will never become a "hackers". they will die in endless hunt for sci-fi designed hacking tools... it's something like M$... they're trying to make a good OS but year by year it's worse and worse

bah, maybe someone have to tell scenarists something about hackers... as far as I know, true hacker doesn't do his "job" to destroy system but to learn it...

uh, maybe it's time to go sleep

I don't have courage to read it after myself

taylor_venable · 07-27-2007, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by danaketh

true hacker doesn't do his "job" to destroy system but to learn it...

That's one meaning. But I would think you could be a hacker and a penetration tester at the same time.

kstan · 07-28-2007, 01:17 AM

no matter how, movie maker should not teach improper hacking ideal, it will lead people think that hacking is easy and the only thing to do is find the necessary softwares.