Man, this whole series is so well written. I remember back in the day, when lophtcrack, Medusa, Cain and Abel, and JackTheRipper along with massive (for the time) rainbow tables were the tools of the trade (This was a little before internet exploits and Metasploit gained popularity). As a little script-kiddie, finding and running exploits on unsecured servers and machines, doing silly things like ARP poisoning in my high school lab network and bruteforcing zip files with passwords, oh such glorious times. I truly went from being a user of tech to a person with a hacker mindset, which has proved to be tremendously useful in my professional career.
I honestly feel that in the current day and age, if anyone tried the same stuff many of us got away with in the early 2000s (or 90s), then the punishment would be much much stricter. Not sure how that gets in the way of people learning by "banging things together till they work", which was a major source of learning for me.
I honestly feel that in the current day and age, if anyone tried the same stuff many of us got away with in the early 2000s (or 90s), then the punishment would be much much stricter. Not sure how that gets in the way of people learning by "banging things together till they work", which was a major source of learning for me.
Damn, I feel old now!