Holy shit. People have legit asked me this question. Although, I’m an IT professional and they didn’t jump to that question just from building a PC.
Well, can you hack Facebook?
In the U.S. it already counts as hacking when you scrape data… so yeah, sure.
YOu mean I have been hacking instagram for a year O.o
I can guarantee you that someone in the Facebook HQ has their password on a sticky note. I bet they even think having it stuck under their keyboard means it’s hidden.
So… are you going to *hack Facebook or what?
The greatest hacker of all time.
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He can hack into TIME!
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Grandma is just recruiting for a hacking group.
Straight out of Watch Dogs: Legion
The GHackerz, no one would suspect a bunch of old granny’s running an elite top tier hacking group lmao
I can hack Facebook.
hits F12
Look, I just broke into their CODE!
‘now hack into Dianne’s account and unfriend her kids’
Had a random guy that I spoke to at a bar ask me if I could hack a university to forge a degree for him when I told him I work in IT. Even if I could do something like that, it seems like a really risky and unethical thing to do for some rando at a bar.
I once had the knowledge how you could hack a government system to get free fishing licenses. Seemed like a high risk / low reward type of deal though.
I could probably do that in LibreOffice. Like, how hard is it to print out a thing that says “BACHELOR’S OF SCIENCE” in that stupid old school font.
It was a test. You failed 😔
So he was asking in earnest? Lol
He was drunk, but then again, so was I.
…but could you?
That’s when you say yes, edit the page source in browser, show him it says he has a degree, get paid, and disappear.
Most of us older computer nerds and coders certainly tried to hack Facebook back in the 00’s. To answer Grandma’s question, no, we cannot.
Back in undergrad, before Facebook went HTTPS only, I would setup “free wifi” and steal people’s cookies for shits and giggles. Use the cookies to authenticate with FB and send random messages to people.
Looking back, I probably shouldn’t have been doing that. Definitely illegal.
They were just barely starting to get serious about legislating cyber security, so you were only maybe breaking some laws. I remember in the 90’s it was a lawless land. There were no laws against hacking, or at least none that anyone understood, and most sites had terrible security. I gained access to someone’s Hotmail once just by trying “anon/anon” as a user/pass combo. I also used to gain access to e-commerce customer databases just by googling certain SQL strings. I’d poke around and then send the webmaster an email letting them know their site was vulnerable.
There isn’t a law against hacking but I am sure there are other applicable laws when you do harm while hacking.
There is, it’s called CFAA and is absurdly broad. Pretty much any time you
knowingly accessed a computer without authorization
it’s technically illegal.
So you’re telling me every time I stole my sister’s phone and took goofy selfies with it?? Straight to jail???
Seems that way yeah. Naturally this sort of law is selectively enforced to nab whoever they have a problem with though so probably your sister doesn’t have the clout to bring you to justice.
That’s a really good point
Yes, you horrible criminal monster.
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Firefox had a plug in for it!!
That plugin and others that came after, was one of the things that finally got websites to start using https on everything, not just the log in page.
It did! Even worked on WEP encrypted wifi!
I wonder what happened to him in March 1997
Looking back, I probably shouldn’t have been doing that. Definitely illegal.
You know that stuff you post on lemmy is probably on databases everywhere for like, forever, right?
Who’s gonna press charges for the “hey mom, today I ate my poo” message they sent 10 years ago ?
No one is going to press charges about me fucking around with their FB accounts 10 years ago.
So you know how to crochet? Can you make me a bulletproof vest?
okay but the amount of yarn that would require will make your vest impossibly huge & heavy to wear or walk around in.
I’ve gotten this from friends.
I got this from a service technician once. He was like, “So you know code? Say I had my wife’s phone, but not the password. How could I get into her Facebook Messenger??”
And I was like, “… So can you fix my drain line, or no?”
Sounds like that guy needs a marriage counselor, not a hacker.
I just get teased by my computer guy because I still use WinZip. Apparently that’s now considered “retro”. Ow my dignity.
What’s the cool zip utility?
Apparently 7-Zip. I’ve never felt bother enough by WinZip to stay en vogue with the times I guess.
7-Zip is open source while WinZip is not. Also, 7-Zip’s native format, .7z, is superior to Zip.
7zip has been “the standard” for like twenty years
Man, I’m over here still using my paid version of WinRAR like a boomer, and it seems to work just fine.
I was wondering where this left WinRAR. I never felt like WinZip was ever cool.
I used 7zip for so long I thought it was retro by now.
if winzip is windows only, the cool new zip utility is stock windows explorer
It even supports .rar and .7z now
oh thats good, that means everything will start using .7z because of how much better it is at compressing files, right? …right?
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Mr. Robot (2015)
“I’ve tried, you can’t” to just end the conversation.
Too real