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Student get A for hacking schoolcomputer
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| Endre |
we do this alot at my school
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| 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. |
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| Tranex02 |
| 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.... |
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| The Wyyl |
...It's not common to me...:conf: :conf: :conf:
:nervous:
At least I think it's somewhat impressive, even if it is a fairly easy password. |
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| Illusion |
| 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. |
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| k.k.d. |
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.. :) |
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| Trance-Canada |
| Any nutbar coulda done it, its the schools fault anyways, the should have such an easy password :P |
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| Nell |
heh, couldnt agree with swamper more.
pasword tips..
10 or morce characters long
change cases
included numbers, letters, foreign keys.
dont write it down |
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| shao |
| lol.. the kid's like "I made ING SURE they gave me my A's back!!" |
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| Kirby |
| 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? |
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| PatMcGroin |
"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* |
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