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If You Hack NBC, You Don't Get to Meet Tom Brokaw
subgeek writes "Security Focus Online is carrying this story about the spot that Adrian Lamo almost had on the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. NBC changed their mind after they realized the possible legal implications of filming someone hack corporate systems. NBC also seemed a bit touchy that Lamo had gotten into their system so handily. According to the article, it took him about five minutes and one guessed password to get inside NBC's intranet from a computer at a Kinko's. Lamo's comment: "It was a very full service system.""
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Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Perhaps they just didn't want to admit that they'd been cracked by somebody with the last name of "Lame-O".
Reminds me of the great SNL skit with Nicholas Cage:
"The name is Dumass, Dumass!"
because he found out the great secret of TV anchors...
That's my purse! I don't know you! -- Bobby Hill
::Sigh:: you dont need to hack a system to bring a corporation to its knees, you just need to post a link on slashdot...
anyone have the text?
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
"password" is is a good try as well.
The revolution will be televised. Blackout restrictions apply.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
NBC Executive: What a coicidence! That's the exact code I use on my matched luggage!
What's the world coming to when life immitates parodies immitating life?
"Communism is like having one [local] phone company " - Lenny Bruce
I mean this is television. Maybe they took one look at him and found out he was not the buff trim hunky reality TV piece of meat that gets on TV nowadays. Maybe he has Tourette's, who knows. Why would you want to watch his interview.
Lamo: "Uh I haXord their shit in about 5 minutes it was Leet! they left a service password called PASSWORD on this gateway node and once I was there I forged an IP address or two...."
Brokaw: "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........"
Six pack of Rockstar "Energy Drink" - $6
Network time at the local Kinko's - $2.50/hour
Getting booted from NBC Nightly News after hacking their intranet - 5 minutes effort
Scoring with the hot NBC Nightly News Producer because she's impressed with your k-r4d sk|llz - priceless
Teenage intruder: See? I run nmap 234.34.53.5 and I get a list of all the ports that are open on their machine. I can then do some other stuff with libpcap...
Brokaw: Wardrobe!....dammit, get this kid a large sleek trenchcoat, combat boots, and a pair of those $300 designer sunglasses. They're expecting neo, not urkel. Audio!...cue that "techno" music they listen to. (to "hacker")Okay, kid, your motivation is to disrupt The System, bring down The Corporate Machine that runs the government, and then make it with Carrie Ann Moss in a hovercraft.
Teenage intruder: But I just thought I would show you how I learned about this network vulnerability in my quest for knowl....
Brokaw: (to cameraman) Start rolling in five, four, three, two...
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
It would have been great if he would have gotten into the NBC Nightly News teleprompter and put at the end of Tom Brokaw's lines "...and in other news, while visiting a low-income daycare center Dick Cheney bit the head off an infant. Additionally, I am a turnip, vroom vroom."
I bet he'd say it.
You have to listen to the American national anthem when reading the previous post, while standing with hand over your heart, crying ever so slightly and tilting your head a bit.
What happened America? Why are you SO FULL OF SHIT?
He's absolutely right. Neither one of them have yet been hacked. ;)
So, maybe he doesn't get his exposé on NBC about cracking NBC's networks...
But I'll bet that ABC would be happy do do a report on cracking NBC's networks...
Where are you, Mr. Jennings...
Lamo's comment: "It was a very full service system."
Ohh, Adrian. You should change your name from Lamo to Lmao with those witty one liners!
hey, i've got a doorstop here that no one has ever hacked either, perhaps i should go on and on about its virtues . . . i mean, it's about as useful as a mac!
"I am VERY curious as to what it was."
I got a chance to see the video. It was just five asterisks.
"Derp de derp."
This guy will be lucky if he isn't sued.
Sued?
Hell, he'll be lucky if isn't branded a computer terrorist and thrown in jail for life!
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
"I'm guessing he tried 'god'."
... and so on.
No, that only happens in the movies. Here are some other notable characteristics of fictional computers:
- They always use fonts that are at least an inch high
- Windows does not exist, nor does Mac, or anything else we've ever seen
- Computer displays are extremely animated. (They're also very noisy...) Fortunately, they have plenty of hard drive space (even in the early nineties) to play back pre-rendered animations.
- Despite the benefits of using a mouse, using a movie computer requires bursts of constant typing. The space bar and backspace keys are never used.
- Movie computers are not capable of multitasking. All you get is the exact interface you need to advance the plot.
The password was probably: 'password'.
***** is the password
HA!
"In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women..." -H. Simpson
The MacOS running WebStar and other webservers as has never been exploited or defaced, and are are unbreakable based on historical evidence.
Based on historical evidence, my backyard shed is burglar-proof.