It was literally just the command string and the receiving end would initiate a ZModem download and then just hang as it had nothing to send - depended on the the system of course, he used it most on BBS's. This was probably about 15 years or so ago if my memory serves me well.

Im not sure but I thought that hacking was when you get something to more than you paid for and expanding ones knowledge.

Isn't this supposed to be called cracking?

Google for the term social engineers or search wikipedia, I did not post a link because I thought it might violate forum rules.

It is the art of fooling someone to believe something you are not. You can pretend to be a bank manager and ask for a huge amount of money from a bank. Consider the case of Stanley Rifkin. Or you could be forgetful and write down the password for your bank account and someone might see it (consider phishing). Of course a little trick with the computers help.

My point is that, no matter how much the technology progresses, firewalls are installed, files are encrypted, passwords are made stronger; there will be one careless user who will write down the encryption key/password on a piece of paper for a hacker to see.
There are countless example of how people/corporations lots tons of money and data because of fault of a careless self/employee.

Being on this topic, I might as well say that humans will remain to play a major role in disasters too. I wrote a report on technological disasters a few weeks back and many of them happened because of careless attitute of humans rather than failure of technology.

its fine.

Nice Explanation 'Hammerhead'...Thanks.

But then again isnt it with every species, never mind just humans. Every one let their guard down once in a while, even animal species as well. Also arent we the only species to have progressed from animals to this standard within a matter of few thousand years.

That is completely off topic though, but still.

Raj

cracking???? what is the difference between cracking and debugging?

Are you trying to be stupid, or does it just come naturally to you?

Right just to answer the question at hand, cracking would be breaking into the security setup of a program to use it illegaly. You can find a lot of cracked softwares on the net to download and anything with cracked linked to its name would be classed as illegal more often.

Debugging is entirely different thing, when a software or a program is created it is never perfect, there are always flaws in it i.e. bugs, debugging is basically the process of removing those bugs that might make a program unstable.

Am I right guys???

Raj

AS i have already said in the above post cracking and hacking do not have too much difference, they are mostly illegal, but there are sometimes the ethical hackers who will try to hack into a system just to test its security capabilities etc. As far as expanding knowledge is concerned, there is no limit to expand ones knowledge but there is always a line that one should avoid crossing to expand knowledge. As long as it is kept within legal boundaries no one can stop you from learning. That is the reason for the existence of this thread as it is something of a knowledge source for those who want to learn more about Hacking....and no, not how to learn Hacking...;-p

Hope that answer your question.

Raj