Comment on Anon on hacking
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I mean… yes.
Correct.
Ever heard of red-teaming?
Just pretending to be some unnanounced maintenance crew, what, they didn’t let you know we were scheduled for today?
…and then 9/10 times, blamo, you’re now either in or very close to in a server room.
This is why its utterly insane to just give other people your passwords and swipe patterns and such.
Even assuming they never have any malicious intent, ever, the amount that an idiot can fuck shit up unintentionally is potentially unlimited.
This is why 95% of most ‘hacking’ operations are spearphishing or some kind of social engineering, barely 5% of the actual consistent effort is in… actually developing some package based around one or multiple exploits.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ve never hacked anyone, nor do I plan to, but I’ve always been curious about cybersecurity shit, and even a dumbass like me knows how to find all your passwords as long as there is a file or directory with anything resembling "password’ in the name. Just run
find, ezsp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
… i mean… if you store your passwords in… plain text… yes…
… but I guess most people are that stupid.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 4 days ago
most people are 100% that stupid, lmao. that reminds me, i need to fuckin
mv ~/passwords ~/some_other_directory_nameArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Wait you mean like, you have a .txt file of your passwords? Or you mean like there’s some file idk about that is cookie related or windows stores something something plaintext by default or something? Cause if .txt, why not .kdbx?