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What the hackers do, and how to keep them from doing it
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Picture, if you will, a parasite that calls itself an
"immunity tester." Our immunity tester travels from host
to host, "testing" to see if it can feed off that particular
host. When the feeding is good, our parasite tosses a few chunks of
meat in front of the sharks. The feeding frenzy begins.
You'll know the feeding frenzy when it happens. You've been hit by
the password traders. Unless you have frenzy protection, your bandwidth
use will go through the roof. Someone needs to pay that bandwidth bill -
but it won't be the sharks or the parasites.
In spite of the feeding frenzy, our parasite is a responsible
parasite. He's careful to not destroy or otherwise damage the host.
Sure, he starts the feeding frenzy, but the frenzy itself is not
his concern. He'll add one or two passwords to your members area rather
than two hundred. Two hundred might get noticed.
If he's cracked hundreds
of your passwords, he'll only post a few at a time for the sharks.
You'll focus on the few, without realizing that hundreds are known.
As our parasite trickles out the "fresh" passes, he remains
a hero for continually doing such great work.
Almost every hacker board calls itself the top resource
for "security testing." They are "educational"
in nature, and not for profit. If you're a webmaster, you can ask
the board owner to remove all references to your site from their
board - and they will.
Hackers divide their work into two basic categories, cracking
and exploiting. Cracking is the process of decrypting
passwords so as to gain access to the members area of a paysite.
Exploiting is the process of doing stuff you weren't supposed
to be able to do, so as to gain a copy of the password file for
cracking purposes, or gaining access to other interesting information
on the paysite's server.
The sharks, by the way, must move quickly. That's the reason
for the feeding frenzy. There are so many sharks looking for fresh
passes, that the passes last mere hours or even minutes. Shark
traffic is quite similar to traffic from a large TGP. It hits with a
sudden heavy surge.
As a freeloader, how do you get away from the other sharks killing
your passes? Your two choices are time, or money. For ten dollars
a month, or twenty five, you can become a "special" member
with access to longer-lasting passes. Yes, the not-for-profit board
owners are selling stolen access to your bandwidth. It's a tough sell,
though. The freeloaders are freeloaders.
Your other option is to become a hacker yourself. Create your own
passes! You can keep them to yourself, in which case they may last
forever, or you can post them. Posting them makes you a valued
contributor to that board.
Since you're now a valued contributor,
you'll also have access to that "special" area. You can
now steal porn to your heart's content.
The best part is... it's easy, with no prior experience required.
Exploiting requires you to use your brain, but beginning cracking
does not. If you're a clueless freeloader who wants to get
all that porn for free, cracking is the place to start.
Let's begin.
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