Holy shit. People have legit asked me this question. Although, I'm an IT professional and they didn't jump to that question just from building a PC.
When I got asked that once, I told them they should bring me their laptop. 10 minutes tops and I'll have access to their files. They really didn't know, if I was bluffing or not.
(I wasn't. The average laptop is genuinely that badly secured.)
Almost every personal computer that isn't a MacBook is poorly secured due to the lack of filesystem encryption as a default. No one encrypts their data at rest, and as such you just have to pull their drive and read it with another computer. Hell, I don't encrypt my entire file system despite being aware of this because of the inconvenience of added boot time, but everything that matters is encrypted and backed up across multiple devices.
The best thing anyone can do is keep the amount of critical, digital data they have to a minimum, keep that data encrypted and backed up, and use a password manager properly. That alone makes it exceedingly unlikely you will ever be a victim of cybercrime solely because you're more of a pain in the ass to compromise than 99.9% of the world.
I personally have almost 10TB of data between all my systems, but of that maybe 10 MB is actually valuable to anyone but me.
Windows encrypts by default now. I don't know if any Linux distros do by default but it was certainly option for me to enable it at install time.
Pretty sure bitlocker is enabled by default since Windows 11 rolled, to my understanding it's part of the reason they now require Microsoft accounts for device on boarding.
Lol Windows user password is the digital equivalent of a pad lock, it only keeps honest people honest lmfaoo
Well, can you hack Facebook?
In the U.S. it already counts as hacking when you scrape data... so yeah, sure.
YOu mean I have been hacking instagram for a year O.o
I can guarantee you that someone in the Facebook HQ has their password on a sticky note. I bet they even think having it stuck under their keyboard means it's hidden.
So... are you going to *hack Facebook or what?
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Grandma is just recruiting for a hacking group.
Straight out of Watch Dogs: Legion
The GHackerz, no one would suspect a bunch of old granny's running an elite top tier hacking group lmao
I can hack Facebook.
hits F12
Look, I just broke into their CODE!
'now hack into Dianne's account and unfriend her kids'
Most of us older computer nerds and coders certainly tried to hack Facebook back in the 00's. To answer Grandma's question, no, we cannot.
Back in undergrad, before Facebook went HTTPS only, I would setup "free wifi" and steal people's cookies for shits and giggles. Use the cookies to authenticate with FB and send random messages to people.
Looking back, I probably shouldn't have been doing that. Definitely illegal.
They were just barely starting to get serious about legislating cyber security, so you were only maybe breaking some laws. I remember in the 90's it was a lawless land. There were no laws against hacking, or at least none that anyone understood, and most sites had terrible security. I gained access to someone's Hotmail once just by trying "anon/anon" as a user/pass combo. I also used to gain access to e-commerce customer databases just by googling certain SQL strings. I'd poke around and then send the webmaster an email letting them know their site was vulnerable.
There isn't a law against hacking but I am sure there are other applicable laws when you do harm while hacking.
There is, it's called CFAA and is absurdly broad. Pretty much any time you
knowingly accessed a computer without authorization
it's technically illegal.
So you're telling me every time I stole my sister's phone and took goofy selfies with it?? Straight to jail???
Seems that way yeah. Naturally this sort of law is selectively enforced to nab whoever they have a problem with though so probably your sister doesn't have the clout to bring you to justice.
Firefox had a plug in for it!!
That plugin and others that came after, was one of the things that finally got websites to start using https on everything, not just the log in page.
Had a random guy that I spoke to at a bar ask me if I could hack a university to forge a degree for him when I told him I work in IT. Even if I could do something like that, it seems like a really risky and unethical thing to do for some rando at a bar.
I once had the knowledge how you could hack a government system to get free fishing licenses. Seemed like a high risk / low reward type of deal though.
It was a test. You failed 😔
I could probably do that in LibreOffice. Like, how hard is it to print out a thing that says "BACHELOR'S OF SCIENCE" in that stupid old school font.
I've gotten this from friends.
I got this from a service technician once. He was like, "So you know code? Say I had my wife's phone, but not the password. How could I get into her Facebook Messenger??"
And I was like, "... So can you fix my drain line, or no?"
Sounds like that guy needs a marriage counselor, not a hacker.
I just get teased by my computer guy because I still use WinZip. Apparently that’s now considered “retro”. Ow my dignity.
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"I've tried, you can't" to just end the conversation.
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