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To "hack" means something completely different from what you all continuously garble on about.
Originally, it meant to quickly write a software program for a limited purpose, but it evolved to mean the study and writing of innovative software programs. The word is increasingly used by people to refer to illegal access to a computer system for malicious purposes - this is actually called "cracking". It's also used as a noun to refer to a clever piece of programming.
So please, stop gibbering on about "ooh, i iz rock, i got sum1s password by anseringner deir question fing so i iz a hacker!!!!111"
You don't need to read a book to avoid giving your details out. All you need to do is read the line in the Hotmail T&Cs that says "Hotmail staff will NEVER ask you for any passwords or other details for your account".
Keep that in mind, there is NEVER any need to hand over your details.
> Yeah Social Engineering, which is conning someone into giving you
> information which leads to your data/account/whatever being
> compromised, is a well recoginsed form of hacking.
>
> You don't have to believe me though... go google
For more information on Social Engineering, read Kevin Mitnick's The Art of Deception, available at all good bookshops (buy from Amazon though). I found it interesting, and will give you an idea on the techniques these do no-gooders use to obtain details.
> Dood you remembered me. I'm all warm in side now.
I'll not ask where.
> Yeah Social Engineering, which is conning someone into giving you
> information which leads to your data/account/whatever being
> compromised, is a well recoginsed form of hacking.
Also comes under the umbrella of confidence tricking, surely?
> I think Ros said it was a form of hacking, 'coersive hacking' or
> something.
Dood you remembered me. I'm all warm in side now.
Yeah Social Engineering, which is conning someone into giving you information which leads to your data/account/whatever being compromised, is a well recoginsed form of hacking.
You don't have to believe me though... go google
Just chillin out, waiting for an extreemely "cool" download of the lastest "cool" thing, sipping your "cool" lemon coke. And of course, Spending your spare time stealing passwords and outwitting people, makes you so utterly "cool" it is beyond my contemptous mind to even begin to describe how "cool" you are.
You are an utter tossbag. You think it's IMMENSELY funny to 'trick' people into sending them you're passwords. Its definatly not "hacking", and it definatly IS sad. Get an emulator or something, you chug-nugget. It's a bitter sweet tangy irony when you call someone sad but spend time in between "downloads" screwing around with people hotmail accounts.
THE I-RON-ING!
Tricking idiots into sending me their passwords and then messing with their mates is a bit of 5-minute entertainment for me whilst I'm waiting for a download to finish.
Now, lets get something clear: you will never speak to me ever again, or mention my name ever again. If there is something important you desperately want to tell me, just slap yourself until the urge dies.
And my God, you really do need a life other than trying to explain what hacking is to people who don't give a damn.