Guys,
First of all, a hacker is NOT what you think....
-> A hacker is someone who get PAID on a company, to find leaks in the security, that's a legal job!
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The Guys you're all talking about are known as "Crackers", they do the illegal work, like to crack into someone's machine to damage something or just for fun.
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I've cracked a lot of computers in my life and with the most i only left a message behind that i was there... and after a few days, they enhanced their security. There where a few computers where i couldn't get in any more!
And about the WinRAR encryption, that's a stupid one, i'll get it decrypted within 2 minutes. I dont know what version you all use, but you can set a password with the not paid (40 days trial) version.
About splitting the archive in small pieces and put one piece on an USB drive (or whatever), we crackers use dummy files we can place instead of the original version. That's no problem.
And we have better ways to get past a password, you all are right, a password can be cracked with the bruteforce method (or anything like that), but that's the most stupid way to do it (we won't). Like the Windows XP password, we can do 2 things:
- try do crack the password, and do hours to get it done
- just delete the password, and do it completely within a minute
That isn't hard to choose is it ? (There are many more ways btw)
And once we through your firewall, you're done, we hardly work alone so.... one get's the security down, the other go do where we came for.
After we're through the firewall, you will only notice we're there if your missing your file (or something else) or if we left a message.
Another fact: a cracker is always LESS than 5 minutes in you're computer.
We have very good reasons not to stay longer
Yea, we can set a trap, but we're not going to wait for it!
Correction for chickendippers:
If you realise you're being cracked - It's too late, we're gone already.
We have tools to monitor what you're doing, we will notice that you've seen us if you react to it.
About sub7, that's not working anymore, it had worked maybe a few times, but that kind of stuff is blocked within 5 sec if you know how. If you connect withit, it only take 5 seconds to block it....
If you're a cracker or hacker, you're also a computer security specialist, otherwise, you don't have the skills to crack or hack.
You will notice if something happens on your own computer. As cracker you also know at least 2 programming languages. You write your own tools and security software. To crack AND to protect yourself.
We won't stopped by the most common firewalls, there are a few we still can't get trough, but that's only a matter of time.
Dynamic IP doesn't work, we have trackers so we'll know you're new IP if it changes. Within seconds.
And yea, i've got to say you're right on the fact that Mac sucks, you really got to have a unix variant if you want to hack. And if you want to enjoy a computer most, use Windows. I use Windows for my daily things, because it rulez all operating systems if it comes to it's compatibility.
How to secure:
If you have really, i mean REALLY important files, get them on a computer without a connection to the internet. You can connect it to other computers who have internet, because hackers will not go surfing around on a lan-network. That takes far to much time.
There are very few, firefalls we're having problems with.
About locking files and folders, that's the second best way to get your data saved. But you need huge and VERY expensive software for it.
For the ones who are going to ask me.... i'm not telling anyone how to do it.
