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drinkmorejava

Diamond Member
Jun 24, 2004
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I wouldn't call it hacking because it was so freakishly easy, but I got into one of my school's webservers; they weren't very happy. I'm pretty sure they haven't fixed the hole either.

...among other stuff
 

thehstrybean

Diamond Member
Oct 25, 2004
5,727
1
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My router and my school's main file server...we were testing firewalls and security, so the IT director (who knows me way too well) said to try out the firewall...found a couple of holes...:)
 

Mermaidman

Diamond Member
Sep 4, 2003
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93
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Back in the 20th century, I found a loophole in a client's software package. I wisely changed it so that naughty phrases would show up unexpectedly. It was not a good career move.
 

RU482

Lifer
Apr 9, 2000
12,689
3
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dishnet 301 reciever years ago.
got to be to much of a hassle to keep up with

also hacked magnetic laundry tickets in the dorm laundry room the first time I went to college

and a mercedes 300D...hacked it to run off vegetable oil
 

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
25,134
2,450
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I once wrote a computer virus in my Computer Science 2 class in high school. It was written and compiled in QBasic of all things, on a Mac Classic.

It was pretty cool actually... if you dropped my "virus" program in the same folder as QBasic, it would launch my program instead of QBasic itself. It was a real mean bastard, too... It showed a "Welcome to TurboVirus 1.0!" message when the students opened their program, and "asked" the user if they wanted to delete their program. It didn't matter what they chose, though, since I deleted it anyway :)

I think that the teacher was pretty impressed with the program, but gave me detention for it anyway.
 

Reel

Diamond Member
Jul 14, 2001
4,484
0
76
I have exploited some web sites owned by major corporations. I love that part of my job.
 

everman

Lifer
Nov 5, 2002
11,288
1
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My espresso machine. Generally espresso machines have thermostats control the heat of the water, but they can only keep the water in a range, say 180F - 230F. That's a wide range when you want to brew at exactly 203F.
So now my machine is controlled by a PID temperature controller and can maintain temp to less than .3 F of what I want :) You only see this kind of stuff on super high end commercial machines and one or two super high end "prosumer" machines.
 

Gooberlx2

Lifer
May 4, 2001
15,381
6
91
I was going to hack the planet....but I settled for the Gibson. Ooh the crazy things we techno punks do....rollerblading, wearing stupid clothes, name ourselves after some terrible handle.






...I love that movie anyway.

Originally posted by: tranceport
I hacked a gibson. ;)

Doh, I guess I had been beaten to it. *shrug*
 

effowe

Diamond Member
Nov 1, 2004
6,012
18
81
Modded Xbox, Gamecube with modchips. Installed / replaced 5 LEDs in the gamecube. Hacked PSP and Cellphone, but those are all done through software.

Edit: Cube 1, Cube 2
 

MDE

Lifer
Jul 17, 2003
13,199
1
81
Softmodded my Xbox, "hacked" my phone, other boring stuff that people posted detailed, foolproof instructions for.
 

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
26,256
406
126
Originally posted by: everman
My espresso machine. Generally espresso machines have thermostats control the heat of the water, but they can only keep the water in a range, say 180F - 230F. That's a wide range when you want to brew at exactly 203F.
So now my machine is controlled by a PID temperature controller and can maintain temp to less than .3 F of what I want :) You only see this kind of stuff on super high end commercial machines and one or two super high end "prosumer" machines.

That's pretty neat. :)

For those that said they've hacked their cellphone, what hack did you do and how did you do it?
 

d3lt4

Senior member
Jan 5, 2006
848
0
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Originally posted by: MDE
Softmodded my Xbox, "hacked" my phone, other boring stuff that people posted detailed, foolproof instructions for.

I've "hacked" stuff that people already posted foolproof instructions for. That's about it.
 

JulesMaximus

No Lifer
Jul 3, 2003
74,584
984
126
I've managed to log into other people's routers because they were too stupid to change the password but I didn't do anything malicious. Just used their internet connection for some free surfing.
 

MDE

Lifer
Jul 17, 2003
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Originally posted by: clamum
Originally posted by: everman
My espresso machine. Generally espresso machines have thermostats control the heat of the water, but they can only keep the water in a range, say 180F - 230F. That's a wide range when you want to brew at exactly 203F.
So now my machine is controlled by a PID temperature controller and can maintain temp to less than .3 F of what I want :) You only see this kind of stuff on super high end commercial machines and one or two super high end "prosumer" machines.

That's pretty neat. :)

For those that said they've hacked their cellphone, what hack did you do and how did you do it?

I disabled Verizon's locks on transferring pics\audio to and from the phone with Motorola's software (V265).