Comments | lj2600: Why to take "hacking help requests" seriously.

roadriverrail in lj2600

Why to take "hacking help requests" seriously.

Jan 24, 2008 14:08

Many people on this community already know why it's such a Bad Idea to discuss the use of general computer cleverness in committing even the most minor crime here. I am not a mod, but I am a concerned member, and I didn't see any mention of this on the userinfo page for this community, so I just wanted to post this general statement ( Read more... )

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roadriverrail January 24 2008, 19:55:50 UTC

Hah!

Come down to South Florida and I'll show you.

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roadriverrail January 24 2008, 20:25:18 UTC

That's quite amusing, and certainly explains the way people down here approach their key lime pie.

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nova_42 January 24 2008, 20:40:43 UTC

Ultimately i guess i would have to agree with you. However, these "questionable" conversations of which you speak still need to take place i think; if not here on LJ somewhere else where there are no restrictions.

roadriverrail January 24 2008, 20:45:16 UTC

Certainly. If someone wants to throw up a Blogger account and anonymously discuss that sort of stuff out in the open, that's between them, God, and whatever authorities decide to take an interest.

But, as others have said, 2600's community is not and never has been Black Hat.

secretsoflife January 24 2008, 21:25:37 UTC

WILL YOU TEACH ME TO HACK MYSPACE?!?!111

can you crosspost this to ch1x0rs? we get a lot of these there.

roadriverrail January 24 2008, 21:36:00 UTC

Sure. I can do that. I actually haven't seen much in the way of traffic on that community in quite some time.

An interesting gender-and-hacking question-- When guys and girls show up on communities asking "Will you to teach me to hack X" questions, do they differ as to content? For example, the majority of people I've run across asking how to hack MySpace have been teenage girls trying to spite their schoolyard rivals.

secretsoflife January 24 2008, 22:50:17 UTC

the majority of people overall i've seen asking how to hack myspace | hotmail | etc were teenagers of either gender. i haven't noticed a gender difference among this particular brand of stupid question :)

jon787 January 25 2008, 01:36:45 UTC

Can you teach me how to whistle? ;)

What we need to do is adopt the methods of the techsupport community for dealing with people who ignore the guidelines. Anyone who posts a message for help gets the *WORST* technical support we can come up with. For example, I told the person yesterday to use carrier pigeons. Its a legal* and technically correct answer to his question, but its useless!

* Okay im not sure carrier pigeons are allowed in Starbucks or any other place you may find a hotspot. Check with your local authorities. User of RFC 1149 is responsible for cleaning up after their pigeons.

roadriverrail January 25 2008, 02:02:33 UTC

Can you teach me how to whistle?

Yeah...let's start by buying Captain Crunch. Lots of it.

User of RFC 1149 is responsible for cleaning up after their pigeons.

Hah. I didn't even catch that, and the carrier pigeon networking RFC is one of my faves.

jon787 January 25 2008, 02:13:24 UTC

I particularly like the evil bit RFC cause my computers networks prof put the theoretical evil bit on an exam and asked why it would or wouldn't work.

roadriverrail January 25 2008, 06:09:30 UTC

That's brilliant. I think one of my profs once called it "just as good as any of those other proposed bits" but never put it on a test.

I did find it amusing that my networks book's section on security used the hypothetical situation of Alice and Bob having an affair without Bob's wife Trudy knowing. Trudy looked like such a nagging pain in the ass in the diagrams that I honestly was pulling for Bob.

oh oh oh qdoc January 25 2008, 02:27:25 UTC

I kin has captin crunch wisle?
No?
Okay.
I kin has captin crunch.