If you want into someone's network, why mess around sniffing and cracking, when a bit of well placed social engineering gets a result 95% of the time. Examine the facts
1. Most helpdesk staff are underpaid, underworked and only doing it get to the "next level", whatever that might be.
2. Most mid-high level suits have bad tempers and little patience with underlings and technology.
3. Jo/Joleen average when faced with angry people who can have direct input on their future cave in faster under pressure than a bathysphere with a broken seal.
Result, the CEO's account details with a changed password of your choice in double-quick time.........
It does not matter how strong the password is if you can replace it with one of your choosing for the price of a phone call.........
Ahhhhhggh, those headache commercials, you know, the ones that give you a headache, usually with a deep throbbing, pulsing background vibe. Now that would not be pleasant. Puerile advertising overlayed on your everday nausea whilst on the tube (sorry-subway) as you commute. I love new tech but this, well lets just say it could be uncool, imagine getting the standard million pop ups as you surf warez sites thru your borg box..
Nightmare
Where do all the pocket calculators go????
I got a Sony vaio PCG-C1VE running with some microsoft muck, and redhat 7.0 under a 2.4.2 kernel, virtually everything working, or solutions for problems available (I'm too lazy to fix stuff). Got some help from a dude called Steve Barr - www.stevebarr.com - which filled in the blanks. Machine runs ever so sweetly under the new kernel with the right patches. Linux is slowly taking over all my machines at home, and sneaking into my place of work.....
Linux rocks... End of Story
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If you want into someone's network, why mess around sniffing and cracking, when a bit of well placed social engineering gets a result 95% of the time. Examine the facts 1. Most helpdesk staff are underpaid, underworked and only doing it get to the "next level", whatever that might be. 2. Most mid-high level suits have bad tempers and little patience with underlings and technology. 3. Jo/Joleen average when faced with angry people who can have direct input on their future cave in faster under pressure than a bathysphere with a broken seal. Result, the CEO's account details with a changed password of your choice in double-quick time......... It does not matter how strong the password is if you can replace it with one of your choosing for the price of a phone call.........
Surely MI5 don't need any more rodents............
Ahhhhhggh, those headache commercials, you know, the ones that give you a headache, usually with a deep throbbing, pulsing background vibe. Now that would not be pleasant. Puerile advertising overlayed on your everday nausea whilst on the tube (sorry-subway) as you commute. I love new tech but this, well lets just say it could be uncool, imagine getting the standard million pop ups as you surf warez sites thru your borg box.. Nightmare Where do all the pocket calculators go????
I got a Sony vaio PCG-C1VE running with some microsoft muck, and redhat 7.0 under a 2.4.2 kernel, virtually everything working, or solutions for problems available (I'm too lazy to fix stuff). Got some help from a dude called Steve Barr - www.stevebarr.com - which filled in the blanks. Machine runs ever so sweetly under the new kernel with the right patches. Linux is slowly taking over all my machines at home, and sneaking into my place of work..... Linux rocks... End of Story