exactly. anything like that will lead to locking by me

I never ever intended to make this a step by step instuction booklet to hack systems, never thought to do it. As in the start of the thread I made it clear that this is supposed to be one of those threads where people could gain knowledge about defferent aspects of hacking, their consequencies/impact on victims as well as hackers. Hacking is one subject that people have not discussed about on this site. I brought it up because I dont think any IT realted organisation can function perfectly without touching up on this particular side. I never thought that this thread would have come this far but Thanks to everyone who have contributed towards this thread to make it a knowledgeable one. I wish for it to keep going on.

Now as i said i am going to come up with some wierd questions. Here they are, I know I am gonna sound quite like an idiot here, actually i m going to sound like an absolute plonka, but i'll take my chances.
You know in movies they show a lot of funky stuff, say in Die Hard 4, hope you ve seen it, Mcclane's sidekick uses phone to hack into couple of systems. How is it possible to do anything with a phone, specially when it was kind of nicked from a random guy on the street, no special software installed or anything. Fair enough he used Internet enabled phone but is it still possible for doing such with a phone.

I know it was just a movie and anything is possible in it, but in real life is it possible to do something of that magnitude. If it was I really wish that I had that kind of knowledge.

Raj

it was a smartphone.

My windows mobile smartphone current has installed apps for ping, traceroute, vpn, and a remote desktop/ssh client as well as a crack libary for wifi. I could probably hack with that (but i dont, i use it for my own network)

wat phone is it that u have, i got tmobile vario, good phone but never explored any of the features to see what it could do?

depends whether your is windows mobile + phone extensions, or whether its windows mobile smartphone edition. Smartphone edition is very cut down, and doesnt run the same executables.

what is the difference and how can you confirm which one is which i know for sure its Windows Mobile but which version it is I have no friggin clue. Since i ended the contract i have been using it mostly as Sat Nav thats pretty much it or play music on Media player sometimes. There are a lot of things in the settings section which i have to say i never bothered to even play around with but then again, they would need for me to have internet connection even to play around and that would have cost me an arm and a leg, so i mostly kept it simple.

does it have a touchscreen or not?

Yes its the touchscreen one with a full qwerty keyboard on the side slide.

its probably the full version then, i think smartphone version lacks touchscreen support.

i use http://www.pocketputty.net/ for accessing my linux servers from it

Right ok, maybe the phone in DH4 was smartphone. I must have been mistaken.

Here comes another dumb question related to movies, this is what i saw in The Core, if you have seen it then the character Rat does some tuning to an ordinary phone using a chewing gum rapper making some sort of high pitched noise and tells other character that he got long distance calls on the phone for free forever. How could that be possible? Is that possible to acheive on a normal phone or was it just hollywood being hollywood?

I did some research about hacking and hackers and found out about one of the guy who was jailed for using a whistle from a cereal box to make high frequency noise or something to route the calls internationally or something on that line. Dont remember all the details, but is this what was happening with the movie scenario as well? Any ideas?

Raj