Actually, this method works very well for tracking people down too. Pretend you are from their bank and you have a very urgent matter where you need to get ahold of them. :) Some rat bastards stole my credit card number awhile back and bought a bunch of plane tix with it. I even have one of their pictures which I found on the web. Too bad the police and credit card companies don't give a damn about credit card fraud anymore. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gabe Turner [mailto:gabe at msi.umn.edu] > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:42 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] How to hack? > > > Well, I suggest the Mitnick Method: Call him up, pretending > to be someone from his ISP, and have him give you his IP > address and his Administrator or root password. > > Gabe > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:04:42PM -0500, Carl & Paula Zeilon wrote: > > I have a friend who has dared me to get into his computer. He is > > running a > > cable modem in Woodbury. I don't know which ISP. After > boasting about all > > the benefits of this great high speed connection, I asked > if he ran any > > kind of firewall. He told me that indeed, one was not > necessary. His > > ISP told him he was covered. He also runs no kind of antivirus > > software. I told him "you're nuts", he told me "I double > dog dare you to > > hack me". Alas, I have zero experience in this area, but I > would love to > > prove a point. Any suggestions? Please, nothing too cruel. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > Gabe Turner > gabe at msi.umn.edu > SGI Origin Systems Administrator, > University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute > for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list