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- « The Art of Password Hacking! »
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- PASSWORD HACKING: A FOREWORD
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- Password hacking is one of the major parts of hacking. At one time or another,
- you will have to guess, either educatedly or blindly. This textfile was
- written as a sort of hintbook.
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- METHOD 1: MANIPULATION
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- One nice way to get someone's password is to get the person to tell you it.
- for example, if you're in chat, make a textfile and upload it ASCII. this
- will make the text come out fairly quickly, and it may appear that the system
- is informing the user of an error. Have it say something like:
- HITBBS Error #99: User Verify Unknown
- Please Enter Password:
- and see what the guy does!
- Of course, you shouldn't do this on your own account. If you are caught,
- you'll be in deep shit, mister. So make a fake account, and do this shit.
- And make sure it doesn't have something that says:
- CRACKHEAD: HITBBS Error #99: .. etc. etc.
- In other words, make sure that it doesn't print out your name as you type it
- in. Otherwise, unless the guy's a fool, he won't buy it, and he'll get the
- SysOp on you.
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- METHOD 2: OTHER BOARDS
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- If you can get your hands on the user datafile for a board, and the person
- who's account you are trying to hack is in the datafile, then there is a
- decent possibility that it is the same password. There is a better chance that
- the password is somewhat related. So try to get your hands on the user datafile,
- and hack away!
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- METHOD 3: BLIND GUESSING
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- Now this is something that you must do if all else fails. It is known as
- the "brute-force method". Do this only if you have a lot of time and willing
- to make several (hundred) phone calls. And do it when you think the person
- will not be home or will not be calling the board.
- Use a password that you think is likely. Here are some hints.
- Likely passwords:
- 1) Relating to the person's real name, in some form or the other
- RealName: John Doe
- PossiblePW: doe, johndoe,jdoe,jd,johnd,john doe, doejohn, etc.
- 2) Relating to the person's handle, in some form or the other
- Handle: Victim
- PossiblePW: victim, vic, vict, etc.
- 3) A combination of the person's real name and handle, in some form or the other
- RealName: John Doe
- Handle: Victim
- PossiblePW: johndoevictim, jdvictim, jdv, johnvictimdoe, etc.
- 4) A combination of the person's real name and handle, along with a friend's
- real name, and maybe handle.
- RealName: John Doe
- Handle: Victim
- Friend'sRealName: Harry Hailey
- Friend'sHandle: Fuckup
- PossiblePW: johndoevictimharryhaileyfucup, jdvhhf, jdvhhfup, etc.
- 5) A person that the victim is interested in, e.g. a boy/girlfriend, someone
- he/she has an eye for, etc.
- RealName: John Doe
- MateHopeful: Janet Dove
- PossiblePW: janet, johndoeandjanetdove, j&j, etc.
- 6) A combination in some form of another of the person's phone number.
- RealName: John Doe
- PhoneNumber: 212-555-9099
- PossiblePW: 9099, 2125559099, 5559099, 212, etc.
- 7) Name of BBS
- RealName: John Doe
- BBS Name: Crappy BBS
- PossiblePW: crap, crappybbs, bbscrap, etc.
- 8) A combination of BBS name and user name, user data, etc.
- RealName: John Doe
- BBS Name: Crappy BBS
- PossiblePW: crapjdoe, jdoecrap, johndoeatcrappybbs jd@cbbs, etc.
- 9) Mother's maiden name:
- Real Name: John Doe
- Mother's Maiden Name: Janet Ho
- PossiblePW: johndoejanetho, janetho, ho, etc.
- 10) InterNet Address
- Real Name: John Doe
- InterNet Address: j.doe@crapbbs.com
- PossiblePW: j.doe@crapbbs.com, j.d@c.c, etc.
- 11) School Name
- Real Name: John Doe
- School: Faggot High School
- PossiblePW: faggot, jdfaggot, jd@faggot, etc.
- 12) The name of someone they hate:
- Real Name: John Doe
- Person Hated: Des Meanie
- PossiblePW: Des, Meanie, Desmeanie, etc.
- 13) The name of someone they hate, with a "FUCK" or "ISSHIT" or something.
- (also maybe the handle)
- Real Name: John Doe
- Person Hated: Des Meanie
- Person Hated's Handle: Bastard
- PossiblePW: Bastard, fuckbastard, fuckdesmeaniebastard, etc.
- 14) A place where they live.
- Real Name: John Doe
- Borough of Home: Brooklyn
- Possible PW: Brooklyn, jd@brook, etc.
- 15) Combinations of the above
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- Now there are problems. People nowadays are now using little spaces in their
- dialing directories to write down passwords, so they can use random
- alphanumeric combinations. However, that is not that common. So if all else
- fails, do the above. If all else fails, just guess like a rabbit fucks and
- just do your best! Figure things out that you'd do for a password, think why
- you came up with the password. Apply that to the person. OK?
-
- IN CONCLUSION
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- If you try hacking a password, and you don't get it right... DON'T STOP!!
- Like, try anything, even leaving the SysOp a note saying that you forgot your
- password, please delete that account and start another one, y'know. Because
- if the real person calls and finds out that you've tried to hack, don't you
- think the SysOp will be notified??
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- Dat's it, folks. See ya when I see ya!
- Vortex[HIT]
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