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My First Hack: A High School Prank With Bad OPSEC

My First Hack: A High School Prank With Bad OPSEC

FromCYBER


My First Hack: A High School Prank With Bad OPSEC

FromCYBER

ratings:
Length:
25 minutes
Released:
May 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Before he even knew he wanted to be a hacker, Haroon Meer figured out “on a whim” that he could mess with all the high school computers by just changing one single character in a configuration file. With this newly acquired power, Haroon pranked his best friend using a quote from a classic Jean-Claude Van Damme 1980s movie. He also made his clueless computer science teacher really mad.
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Released:
May 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Ben Makuch talks every week to Motherboard reporters Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Joseph Cox about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity.