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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:30 pm Post subject: How many hackers are here?

Just out of curiousity, how many people on WP are computer hackers? I'm wondering just how good aspies are with computers compared to the normal population.

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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject:

Well, I HAVE hacked before, Hardware and software. I have even CRACKED before! Still, you can be good with computers, and not hack. I had a "friend" one time, who was a FAMOUS hacker. He turned in a "friend" of his, mitnick. Anyway, Mitnick apparently knows more but the guy I am referring to was really not that good with computers. He merely tried to trick others into giving him passwords by using things like Trojans.

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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:29 pm Post subject: I am

I am a beginner Ethical Hacker. I will only hack for good reasons such as to find weaknesses so that I can improve security. I am not a script kitty, they are not hackers they just claim to be.

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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:45 pm Post subject:

I can hack as far as tinkering and writing/modifying programs. However, if the definition of hacking involves breaking into other computers, I cannot hack my way out of a wet paper bag even with the instructions written on the inside _________________ I am AUTISTIC - Always Unique, Totally Interesting, Straight Talking, Intelligently Conversational. I am also the author of "Tech Tactics Money Saving Secrets" and "Tech Tactics Publishing and Production Secrets."

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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:02 am Post subject:

in elementary school i hacked the security of the macs that they had. they found out, had to reformat the drive and reload. the librarian, who was very arrogant when it came to computers thought the security software was perfect, and thought i had been told the password. in reality, i just guessed it. all i wanted was to change the wallpaper! _________________ I'm a PC in a Mac world!

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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:01 am Post subject:

It's hard to say what hacking is in the modern world, isn't it? Back when we first bandied the word around, I worked on an insurance company's systems: nightly updates of multi-reel tape files. Occasionally, some hardware glitch or software problem would leave bad - or no - data where there ought to be some, and the update would crash. I'd read the core dump, sit down at a card punch, rattle off a deck of cards, run them through the machine and off it would go again. Hacking? Perhaps. We wrote self-modifying COBOL programs to try and squeeze more functionality into a 32K partition. Hacking? Even neater self-modifying assembler programs to diagnose and fix problems? Here it is 35 years later. The net is the norm. I spend my time crunching code of one sort or another, still striving to master the art of delivering clean, reuseable, maintainable, extensible and - above all - useful results with the minimum of effort.

crownarmourer
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:06 am Post subject: Hackers.

Working in the world of computer security there is not such thing as ethical hacking and will remind everyone out there it is illegal. Please be warned the penalties for doing so are quite severe. The costs you guys impose on industry are quite large probably running into the multi billions of dollars, which means higher costs and lost jobs. Don't think you won't be caught because you will be, it's just a matter of time.

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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:17 am Post subject:

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Just out of curiousity, how many people on WP are computer hackers?

I'm wondering just how good aspies are with computers compared to the normal population.

42. There are 42 people on WP who are computer hackers.

Also, your second sentence is COMPLETELY unrelated to your initial question.
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:27 am Post subject:

This thing about hacking and illegality is getting out of hand.

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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:59 am Post subject:

I know how to hack but I know it's not good 'cuz it's violating other's privacy and I,myself get annoyed when someone is invading my privacy.. BUT... (ngkfgkdfgjkdfgdngkdngkdgnkgjigjdgsdkjsdihsdigsdlgjsdkgdsogsdogjkkenekgdo..) i'll keep the "but" things secret..haha _________________ “We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”

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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:18 am Post subject:

I can (or could hack -- I am out of the business now) but I never did. I respect property. I am not a barbarian savage. ruveyn

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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:54 pm Post subject:

Hacking doesn't mean illegal activity, that is just implied. It effectively means improvising. _________________ Nobody's mom

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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:36 pm Post subject: Re: Hackers.

crownarmourer wrote:

Working in the world of computer security there is not such thing as ethical hacking and will remind everyone out there it is illegal. Please be warned the penalties for doing so are quite severe.
The costs you guys impose on industry are quite large probably running into the multi billions of dollars, which means higher costs and lost jobs. Don't think you won't be caught because you will be, it's just a matter of time.

I think you are referring to cracking, not hacking. They are two very different things. And even cracking can be done ethically and legally in the context of penetration testing in order to improve security.
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