Hack the Teacher! Get an A!

[Legendary]

I think short of entering his home, this guy has pretty much got you beat. The port is a sham.

 

[intogamer]

its illegal if he doesn't know/ allow

he lets you hax him so not illegal

did he tell you his IP?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Heh, I think you guys are taking the wrong approach. Physical security is highest level of security.

Where's he live? :evil:

You know how easy it is to get access to someone's house (legally, think social engineering)?

Clone his drive, takes minutes. Come into class with a copy of the HDD.

I was thinking the same thing... make a tech support logo... find out if his wife is home during the day... "I'm from compu-tech services, licensed to provide customer support for Dell, Gateway, and other manufacturers within 24 hours. We're here regarding... "

-clone the hard drive.

 

[phisrow]

If he's an OS architecture professor I predict one of three things about his home computer:

A) a POS WinME box from five years ago, not connected to the internet. He just doesn't care about real world implimentation at all. That's what engineers do.

B) He was actually raised by a herd of VAXen in a server room, after being abandoned by his parents. His home computer was manufactured in 1985 and he can control the status of every bit in the entire memory map by pure will.

C) *nix/BSD lockdown setup from hell. Lots of scungyish hardware and cables with a software setup that would make an NSA spook cringe.

None of these suggest possibility. You'll either have to do the hack physically, or just do your homework.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Heh, I think you guys are taking the wrong approach. Physical security is highest level of security.

Where's he live? :evil:

You know how easy it is to get access to someone's house (legally, think social engineering)?

Clone his drive, takes minutes. Come into class with a copy of the HDD.

I was thinking the same thing... make a tech support logo... find out if his wife is home during the day... "I'm from compu-tech services, licensed to provide customer support for Dell, Gateway, and other manufacturers within 24 hours. We're here regarding... "

-clone the hard drive.

"We recieved a dispatch from <insert prof.> about a flaky internet connection affecting his encrypted VPN tunnel to the <insert campus> *flip page on clipboard* BDSUM telnet host. Can I take a look at it?"