A kid I know belives...
Well the other day I was walking down the street with a kid that I know. Lets call him Frank. Well we were walking and all of a sudden the topic of computers comes up. As we god into this discussion we were getting closer and closer to the topic of hacking when all of a sudden Frank says > I used to be soooo good at hacking that I could blow up anyones computer.In reply to this I said. "Not only is that impossible. If you knew how to do such a thing it is very unlikely that you would forget." And of course being the noob that he his he started to threaten me with all of this bullshit such as that he would make a "UBER VIRUS!" and destroy my PC.
Now I was determined to prove his ignorance so I took him to hack this site, ( I didn't want him to find out about this website because he would bother the hell out of all of you with his big ego and extremely low knowledge of technology.) I showed him basic challenge one, and I let him take a crack at it. About two hours later he was pulling out his hair trying to figure it out. And so I made him admit defeat.
My point for this thread is for you to share stories of ignorant big mouthed friends of yours. Unless in fact you are lucky enough to have not met such a person. :D:D:D
redzion wrote: Unless in fact you are lucky enough to have not met such a person. :D:D:D
I wish I hadn't met any lol.. One of my friends claimed that he could 'hack' any computer and that he could 'hack' online communities, hotmail etc etc…
I asked him what he meant by 'hacking' a computer or a website, and he didn't even know what to answer. When I started laughing he had to defend himself and said 'Uhh.. Destroying the computers?'. I asked what tools he used and how he performed his 'Uber 1337 haxs' and… Omg, he wondered what he'd need tools for! He asked if I meant like hammers and screwdrivers and stuff!
Seriously, that's the most pathetic wannabe I've met for a long while…
Supposedly, (though I haven't seen any proof or code, I don't doubt its impossibility) you could run very low-level code that would fuck with fan regulators that newer computers have, causing their CPU's to burn up instantly/burst into flame/BLOW UP UBERUBERHAXX.
Though, that guy was probably a total noob and worther of the Justice of the Noobhammer. COUNTERHAXX HIM TO UTTER PWNGE!!! WTH N0 VWLS!!!
@ happysmileman : thats pretty sad, loll @ at other guy that thinks that you could blow up a cp by fuckiong with the fan threw a low level code: thats pretty hard to belive bucause if it was a low level code we would have 10 000 000 sk's crashing comps all over the world and we would hawve a major problem but since, it hasent happend yet eather, its not tru or! its not low level,
bigpimping wrote: @ happysmileman : thats pretty sad, loll @ at other guy that thinks that you could blow up a cp by fuckiong with the fan threw a low level code: thats pretty hard to belive bucause if it was a low level code we would have 10 000 000 sk's crashing comps all over the world and we would hawve a major problem but since, it hasent happend yet eather, its not tru or! its not low level,
Actuall, to pull off something like this it'd HAVE to be low level code. I don't think it could be done without ASM, to be honest.
Happysmileman wrote: I know a guy who "writes viruses for fun", I asked him what programming language he uses and he said "binary obviously, what other languages are there?"
Actually, the only "programming language" there is, is binary. Computers can't read c++ code, they can only "read" ones and zero's.
lol moving away from things you can do with mice and going back on topic, here's my short but sweet story.
first or second computing lesson back in college, i sat next to this retard, who's sitting here playing with notepad trying his best to get a BAT file saved. after he finally does it, he turns to me and says "heh dude wanna see something cool?"
so i look at him without saying anything and he says, "look if i run this file dude i could hack the whole network". so he runs the file, and a message pops up saying "cmd.exe is disabled".
he says to me "ah shit, dam this network is secure.. oh well"
and im sitting there like wtf. what a idiot. ofcourse cmd is disabled you dont have the dam privs. why not use command? besides rooting a network via command, pfft theres loads of easier ways, and this is after i nearly got expelled for hacking my last school network. so anyways i just turned back to my comp without saying anything. really hate kids like that.
so yeah thats it, not much of a story, but just my 2 cents.
Prometheum wrote: Supposedly, (though I haven't seen any proof or code, I don't doubt its impossibility) you could run very low-level code that would fuck with fan regulators that newer computers have, causing their CPU's to burn up instantly/burst into flame/BLOW UP UBERUBERHAXX.
Though, that guy was probably a total noob and worther of the Justice of the Noobhammer. COUNTERHAXX HIM TO UTTER PWNGE!!! WTH N0 VWLS!!!
Thats what I was thinking, but whats the very worst thing that can happen. I would suspect that there would be the smell of a electric fire followed by some smoke and your computer over heating and shutting down. If for some reason the computer did not shut down it might catch fire, but you would have noticed all of the signs long before this happened. And all that is only if it is even possible.
This also brings me to the topic of elderly people being afraid of computers exploding and such. When my grandparents got a computer it took me hours to convince them that it would not explode suddenly. Its not like PC manufactures put C4 in there hardware!:angry:
We all have are funny storys.But do not make fun of this skiddie… Beacause he just wanted to look cool, and you didnt but probably did make him feel bad after he failed at the 1st challenge.But I hope you didnt if so I hope you helped him out.
People always say there are to many n00bs asking questions etc answer them.If you help a n00b there will be less n00bs ;)
Ok we'll I guess its a good thing ur not lol and do u have msn
add me>= boozeandgurls@hotmail.com
I had a kid at my school who said that he could do the exact same thing!!! He also failed our Computer Literacy course. When I asked him why he failed the course he was he was so bored during the class. I asked him to show me some of his code and he said "No Way am I revealing any of my secrets to you!" Then I walked away.
About the CPU overheats: I was under the impression you could only do it on one sort of board, and I'm betting it was fixed pretty fast.
And about computers exploding: My friend's computer exploded a while back, probably due to leaky caps and a LOT of shit being plugged into it. funniest conversation I ever had. "shit my computer just exploded" "brb"
I remember several topics that debated the whole over-heating your computer thing. I don't think anyone ever figured out a way, but that would just be my horrible memory talking. On the same note though, why don't you just get them a Dell Laptop that'll blow itself up without any effort exerted by you? :D
Cheers, ~T
That was a manufacturers error on the battery cells ;) they had the same problem in Sony, Toshiba and many more. The reason for this is because the manufacturer of the battery cells (Sony) screwed up and if dust got on the contacts it would cause a super heat. There was one case where a man blistered his penis by having his laptop on his lap for to long.
Anyways it is doable just not easy.
AldarHawk wrote: That was a manufacturers error on the battery cells ;) they had the same problem in Sony, Toshiba and many more. The reason for this is because the manufacturer of the battery cells (Sony) screwed up and if dust got on the contacts it would cause a super heat. There was one case where a man blistered his penis by having his laptop on his lap for to long.
Anyways it is doable just not easy.
Lol. Is he paralyzed from the waste down, as he couldn't feel the heat, or did he feel it and go like, "WTF!" and proceed to toss it down?
Anywho, I don't think it's possible unless the manufacturer uses a faulty motherboard, and even then making a component "explode" is much harder than making it fizzle and burn out. (Which is equally as hard, but reguardless;)
plz remind me never to put my sony laptop on my lap again, :O hehe just kiding i got mine before this thing happend:o but thats gotta hurt :O me my best storie happend today haha someone tried the same thing as in cheeses storie.. sept he didint save it as a bat and was like wtf yo this isint working n im sure i read the instructions right.. obviously they dont come with idiot warning labels, i dought a bat file will work when its saved as a .txt lol
That was a manufacturers error on the battery cells they had the same problem in Sony, Toshiba and many more. The reason for this is because the manufacturer of the battery cells (Sony) screwed up and if dust got on the contacts it would cause a super heat. There was one case where a man blistered his penis by having his laptop on his lap for to long.
Anyways it is doable just not easy.
This reminds me of my old Game Boy that I had when I was a child. I didn't have a backing for the battery's so played anyways. Anyways one of the batteries ended up exploding and burning both of my hands pretty bad.
Hmm, the BEST story I have was yesterday at school. Teacher walks out of the room. A kid pulls up the command.com and proceeds to say, "With this prompt, I will become admin in 20 seconds" He then proceeds to ping 127.0.0.1 about 100 times. After about 10 min, the teacher came back and saw him pinging 127.0.0.1 and the kid was held for 4 hours over. Once the teacher said the kid was staying for 4 hours, the kid tried to blame everything on me (like there was anything to blame) I knew he disabled all the filters and wasn't supposed to, so I alerted the teacher and was free to go home while the kid stayed there.
BC
AldarHawk wrote: the two major ways that I have heard of saying Linux are as follows:
- Line-Ucks
- Lyn-Ucks
now the inventors name was Linus (Line-us) so I pronounce it as the top. but sometime when I am lazy I do revert to the bottom. :evil:
I'm from Sweden (Finland, where Linux was first created is a neighbour to my country) and we don't pronounce Linus like 'Line-us' but quite exactly we say 'Leen-us' so Linux is pronounced 'Leen-ucks'
Just for your info :happy:
LOL cheese your not the only one whos almost been expelled for hacking skewl. On assembly i took control of the computer running the projector with a remote adimn program and changed the image to porn infront of the headmaster and shit. Anyway i also wanted to say that there is a way to "blow up" a computer… well not blow it up but overheat it. in really old boards they dont stop running if u overclock it too much or disable the fans or sumthing. And ive heard of programs that allow u to run a bios sort of thing when logged on. Ive been investigating it for a while and yeh i think it spossible. But about my newb story. A guy said to me that he could "blow up a computer remotely" So i wagered 100,00$ and my left nut he couldnt do it remotely. two weeks later i come to him and ask where the fucked comp is. He says follow me and i will blow it now. He blew out the PSU by changing it from 115 to 230 volts and then he said he wanted my money and nut. then i reminded him about the remote part of the deal and showed him the the computer still worked if i plugged in another PSU.
Then you went and blew up a computer on wensday just cause you were bored. Then we blamed on the class retard…good times. also wtf did you change the image on assembly….. then again i was away the last 2 thursday's…… That "class retard" guy is head IT person in my class, despite the fact he knows shit all about computers. I asked him what OS he used. He said he couldn't remember….. then i asked him if he could code, he said yes. I asked him what language, he replied "i only know english and a bit of french," i cacked myself laughing for ten minutes after that :D
a motherboard i full of circuit breakers. if the amount of ampere's overflows the breaker,it snaps, and nothing more CAN happen. if this wouldn't happen,a resistor would burn. before anything else.NOT your processor. there are risistors in there,that react to temperature. if they get too hot,they change shape a little a with that, cutting the power supply.(they act like circuit breakers/guards)
there are lot's of possibilities,to screw a motherboard (remote).
try (remote) updating a BIOS with crap :X update NVram (remote) with crap :X
you don't do that sorts of things to other people.
imagine your pc NOT booting again forever?because the bios data,or NVram data got corrupted?you can't reverse this anymore.so… think twice please.
darksun.
i remember hearing of a virus which stopped the fans, and also one that flashed the BIOS, but the problem is the ability to spread, if you destroy your infected box, you have nowhere to spread from.
I Pronounce linux : lin (rhyme with Win as in Windows) - icks (as in sticks )
Linus Torvolds pronounces it like this: LIH-nucks ( http://www.linux.org/info/sounds/english.au )
bigpimping wrote: @ happysmileman : thats pretty sad, loll @ at other guy that thinks that you could blow up a cp by fuckiong with the fan threw a low level code: thats pretty hard to belive bucause if it was a low level code we would have 10 000 000 sk's crashing comps all over the world and we would hawve a major problem but since, it hasent happend yet eather, its not tru or! its not low level,
i doubt youve any clue what the fuck lower level programming means.
Nah, get the Anarchist cookbook and set some thermite in there, set the power on button to activate a magnesium fuse and run like a bat outta hell and watch that thing burn.
Hacking wise, it is possible by jacking with BIOS settings or maybe by somehow fooling your computer to think it's cooler/hotter than it is. Yet to find something to do this, but my half-baked idea.
I hate the thermite fad for destroying data. it's too hard to dry, takes time to gather rust, can't even be lit with a blow tourch, you have to have magnesium, and can't be used indoors (and especially can't in apartment complexes). That is more in responce to the comments on how cool it would be to bust out some thermite when the feds show up.
But I also heard something about a graphics card virus. All I know is that if you set the resolution way higher than your moniter can handle you can harm your moniter, and that thing is packing like 10,000 watts of electricity. If you set the payload to activate after, say 5 minutes of inactivity, would anything exciting happen?
I knew a guy that claimed his mom had managed to crack pgp encryption. When I told him there was a very substantial reward for anyone who can do that, he had very little to say.
Same guy claimed to have owned several nasa launch computers, yet needed my help to reset the password on his bios prompt. If you can't access your own computer, with physical access, through nothing but a bios password…
sigh
that's all, thinking of it makes me angry.
:ninja::evil::ninja:
I've heard (I think it was in Neil Stephanson's cyrptonomicon, an excellent fictional book) that if you set an old crt monitor to a v/h sync that's waaay off, very bad things can happen.
LMFAO,. ive met way too many people like this,. one was on the first day of my last year of grade school, i was sitting in the back of a dark corner with my laptop like normally xD, and he out of no ware sat next to me, looked over my sholder, and saw some code i was working on, he turns to me and said, i use to code, i was really good too, but its been too long, i turn to him and ask, oh really, what laungauge? and he quickly replied windows.. at this point i was trying not to giggle, and i said,. urm,. kay… and left him be.
I was on some mainstream irc server another time, and i had a bit of a reputation, cause i rooted some f**** who really pissed me off xD, he tried to get me arrested, etc. etc. well, some skiddie pm's me and says, "pfft you dont know s***" i just kind of ignore it, close the window,. and he pvts me again and says, "how do you get someones ip?!" this point im lmfao, and i decided to flatter him and gave about 3 paragraphs on different ways to retrive someones ip address xD, then he said,. guess you know a little,… then i start to get a little irratated,. and say to him, i bet if i gave you 6 lines of a simple perl program, you wouldn't be able to tell me what it did, he pvts me and says, pfft you n00b, so i write a small perl program that opens a file and shifts everything to uppercase, then give this to him, and after about 10 minutes of silence, i say to him, pencils down, whats your answer? and he actually said, ha, that program blows i could code better with my eyes shut, xD!! so i asked again, what does it do?, then he went quiet for another few minutes, and i said,. you don't know do you? he then says, what program, i didnt get one,. lol, i for shiggles i give him the code again, and he signs off.. i later posted this conversation online cause i found it hilarious, and had people all over the net leaveing him memo's xD, heres where the story gets good, :P he actually got his older brother to dcc flood me xD, but thats not the best part, it all came from the same ip address, lmfao, so it blocked his ip after the third try, and i pvt'ed him, asking,. urm,. wtf?. and he says, that was for! insert skiddiees name here xD XD XD XD xD
AldarHawk wrote: the two major ways that I have heard of saying Linux are as follows:
- Line-Ucks
- Lyn-Ucks
now the inventors name was Linus (Line-us) so I pronounce it as the top. but sometime when I am lazy I do revert to the bottom. :evil:
Actually, "Linus" Torvalds is Finnish(?) so it's pronounced "Lin-us": "Lin" as in "Lint" and "us" as in… us lol. Anyway, I was watching a movie on the history of open source and he was in it several times, I heard his name mentioned quite a bit. I always thought it was "Line-us" like the kid in the Charlie Brown comics… Lol, and the most common pronounciation of "Linux" I've heard is "Lin-ucks" with a 'short' "i".