theprof00 said:
DonFerrari said:
how hard would it be to completely cut all internet access going to NK, Iran and other places like that?
don't they need fiber optics or other means to connect to other servers? or thet use sat?
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in short, it's physically impossible.
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Like, literally just make 100k small usb thumb drives, ship them to china, ship those to America, have an inside man create a company that gives away the drives for whatever, charity, or weight loss. Anythign that will make people bite. Not everyone has all the protection on their computers up to date. A simple text file could send thousands of users to a remote site where a port can be opened, and funneled to a personal satellite. That then bounces to china, then to korea, where all the ips are traced to physical addresses, and with enough time, personal information. They then keep infecting other computers through falsified emails and when they find someone they want, they pump it hard, getting things like the types of passwords you use. Then they apply that to everything else.
It's hard to figure out a password, but say all your passwords are:
Batman12
Superman001
Flash69
It's relatively easy for a computer to figure out eventually.
People make hacking out to be some complex system, but it's a pretty simple affair with the right software.
You wanna know how easy it is to hack? Go wardriving sometime.
Use a laptop, scan wifi in the area as you drive from block to block. Once you've connected, instead of using the password, enter 192.168.1.1 that'll connect you to the router. After that, look up a website showing all the standard passwords for wifi based on teh router make and model. As a kid we used to do this all the time. You'd be amazed, really. If we had malicious intent, we could have easily set up camp in hundreds of computers, mined all their data, keystrokes, media, connections, etc. You can even create fake websites that people log into. Say they have a work account and are logging in from home. You can create a proxy website that matches the one they are trying to reach, simply by creating a proxy server, and replacing the internet icon to rout to the proxy. As soon as they attempt to log in, all the information is then sent to a remote computer who then quickly logs in and changes the password. The infection can then freeze the computer so they don't know anything is wrong yet, and simulate fake problems like overheating, or video card errors, and ask the user to reboot.
We used to just break in, and create a ms paint picture with spiderman saying "change your router password", and set it as the desktop background.
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