Student get A for hacking schoolcomputer

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Posted by arj1o1 on Dec-18-2002 20:25:

Student get A for hacking schoolcomputer

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/intern...hack/index.html

Posted by Endre on Dec-18-2002 21:02:

we do this alot at my school

Posted by Swamper on Dec-18-2002 21:16:

"It took three hacking programs less than a second -- 200 milliseconds to be exact -- to find the password to the school's computer, Reid said. It was the school secretary's name: Silvia."

That's pretty trivial - he used a program with a known set of words to try.

Posted by Tranex02 on Dec-18-2002 21:20:

quote:
Originally posted by Swamper
"It took three hacking programs less than a second -- 200 milliseconds to be exact -- to find the password to the school's computer, Reid said. It was the school secretary's name: Silvia."

That's pretty trivial - he used a program with a known set of words to try.

yea...they make it sound like this kid was a genieus....it's a very common method....

Posted by The Wyyl on Dec-18-2002 21:24:

...It's not common to me...

At least I think it's somewhat impressive, even if it is a fairly easy password.

Posted by Illusion on Dec-19-2002 13:42:

quote:
Originally posted by Tranex02
yea...they make it sound like this kid was a genieus....it's a very common method....

Yeh that's common practice. I got references for doing that when I was in school.

Posted by k.k.d. on Dec-19-2002 14:57:

Brute force approach is for the weak, and easelly detected by any modern OS too .....

Installing a key listener on every computer was what I did back in my HS.... People were login in, unaware that their keyboard typing was all registered into a log file... At the end of the day, I had almsot all the logins and passwords I ever needed, from Supervisor's to teachers to fellow high schoolers...

.. but then again, that was a long ass time ago, and DOS/Novel security wasn't really the hardest thing to get by..

Posted by Trance-Canada on Dec-19-2002 15:01:

Any nutbar coulda done it, its the schools fault anyways, the should have such an easy password :P

Posted by Nell on Dec-19-2002 18:54:

heh, couldnt agree with swamper more.

pasword tips..

10 or morce characters long
change cases
included numbers, letters, foreign keys.
dont write it down

Posted by shao on Dec-20-2002 05:02:

lol.. the kid's like "I made FUCKING SURE they gave me my A's back!!"

Posted by Kirby on Dec-20-2002 18:00:

I heard that sometimes the first 8 characters of a password aren't checked which makes it doubly insecure/crackable...is this true/have you heard it, if so where would something like this happen?

Posted by PatMcGroin on Dec-21-2002 11:08:

"You see, Reid already has a perfect 4.0 grade point average at Anzar High School in San Juan Bautista, California. So to leave his mark, he decided to lower his grades to a 1.9 GPA -- a meager D+. "

anyone who thinks this kid is actually quite stupid, raise your hand

*raises hand and slaps Reid*

Posted by Mental Exodus on Dec-22-2002 06:24:

Ive seen this on tv before. Its no big deal. ive hacked tha school computerz before just for tha hell of it and it was rather easy to get in. in fact. i could have just walked into the office after school and got in using computers that are tunred on. All u need is someone to watch tha door.

Posted by tranceman78 on Dec-22-2002 07:07:

What a stupid article. They're making a big deal out of a fucking kid downloading some programs and using them to "hack" his school's lame computer password. Any idiot that can use a keyboard can do what this "genious" did. Then they listen to the kids advice. I've got some security advice for them, pick a password that isn't the name of one of your friggin employees ffs.