QOTD: Have You Ever Hacked Anything?

I plead the fifth

I have hacked little things like routers, OS X, DVDs, Blu Rays, but most of all porn websites!

Does jailbreaking an Ipod count? Don't do much hacking, just pirating. lol

You could use the word hack to refer to just about any unintended mod - hardware or software, by that definition, I couldn't count the number of hacks I've done lol

I'm sure most everyone on this site has preformed a hack in some way, be it an overclock, illegal windows install, iphone/regular phone hacks..

What I would want to know, is if anyone has gone out of their way to obtain Linux (or any other free software) illegally. The only way I can think of would be to break into their warehouse and steal a disc

I used to write little cracks/hacks that would open up all the channels for viewing on a popular sat tv provider network.

does that count?

Through all I'm concerned, a hack is something significant and symbolical. Like breaking into the pentagon for the plans to a jet or setting every account in a bank to $0.00 through exploitation. Or maybe just getting into your neighbors computer through his Wifi and putting homosexual pornographic content as the desktop (which is always fun). Those who make video game cracks are hackers, those who use them are only pirates.

What I do is pirate and mod, not hack.
Putting OS X on a PC is just a mod.
Overclocking is just modding.
Illegal windows installs are rather easy... and is only pirating (in most cases).
Jailbreaking is just using a pre set instruciton lead you how. The originals who did it were hackers, but only them.

xboxs, psps, some software, local unsecure computers, we are samurai, keyboard cowboys HACK THE PLANET!

no. and anyone that says they have isn't a real hacker.

that's the point of a hacker.

i hacked my tom tom, mio c320, my lg 8300 and my linksys wrt54G ver 3 router and put ddwrt on it.. is that good? or am i thinking somethign different here?

Hacked the crap outta my PSP. Then again it really isnt worth buying one if you dont. Same with my Ipod, and original xbox. Im used a pirated copy of windows vista ultimate if that counts but that was only until windows 7 beta came out, and im using rc1 right now (love it by the way). I think things like the psp and Ipod should be modded whenever possible since you have to buy them to begin with. Software on the other hand needs to be purchased, although Windows Vista for free was somthing i did and enjoyed but it all started as an experiment to see if i liked it given all the horrible publicity, then i found out 7 was gonna be realeased and didnt wanna waste the cash on vista.......hey, im human.

Hack? or "target of opportunity"

back in high school, my PC lab teacher gave me a disk to copy something onto for him. Said disk had a file called "locker.dat" I grabbed a copy of that for myself & gave the disk back. It turned out to be the locker combinations for 1/3 the lockers in my high school.
Eventually it got out & the consequences were not fun

but if writing stuff to edit saved game files for PC games counts -- then I did that quite a bit.

I was being considered for a job as an "ethical hacker" based on my reputation as a jack-of-all trades in IT. I have sufficient knowledge of A+/Networking/C++/C#.NET/SQL to do it, but I'd never had an interest in hacking previously and didn't have a working knowledge of any exploits(other than the obvious ones). I may or may not have enjoyed the job, but dam n, that would've looked awesome on my resume.

hacked and cheat my way in our Tantra MMORPG.(in which at that time is very hackable)

Homebrew on my PSP, messed around with packet sniffing but never really got into it, lots of browser shenanigans with about:config, tried to avoid hardcore illegal stuff. Some minor cracks on pirated stuff, but realized modifying open source stuff was just as effective and less injurious to my freedom. Got really into overclocking as was mentioned earlier, and modded the sidewall on my case. So yeah. mostly "modding"

The first rule of fight club...

sorry for the double post, but saw someone mention screwing around with their High School's security. For trying to be a nice guy and pointing out security issues ( Id noticed how easy it was to get at a teachers personal folder, and feared for my own projects, files etc ) I was initially ignored, then threatened when I showed them i wasn't making stuff up. I got localized administrative access, then modified access privileges to specific folders, and boom I was grabbing stuff from and writing to the teachers folders and the school server. Let me make it clear, im a hardware guy. I was bored one day and spent a total of five minutes on google for simple ways to gain admin rights. The rest was just me screwing around. Suffice it to say they threatened to put me in an alternative High School, So I stopped showing them the holes in their system and resigned myself to blocking their ability to watch what i did with various applications, like i said admin access was easy so messing with stuff in program files was a joke by in comparison to permissions. Then proceeded to spend my time on tomshardware, lifehacker, engadget, etc.

yeah!! wireless, cablemodem, router of my cable company, porn, cell phone, mexican highways, xbox, psp, ds, my current os, all software on my computer.. pirateria rulzzz.. mexico freedom,

Let's see...probably my greatest hack was setting up a VPN from school to home using randomly rotating ports so that I couldn't be blocked, remote desktopping into my home system through the link, then using it to bring in some specialised tools to prevent the SCHOOL'S RDP client, designed to watch us, from keeping track of what I was doing. My tool basically told the VNC server that was running on each computer at school that the computers screen resolution was 100,000x100,000. Basically, that meant that even if the admin was viewing what i was doing at full screen, my entire workstation was rendered as a tiny rectangle 10x7 pixels in size. Not only that, but the program also used distributed computing throughout the school district computers to render random desktops, the same size, to fill up the rest of the virtual screen. So, the admin could never have any idea what I was doing. Besides this, I piped that same image through a couple other computers to show on the viewer so that not only could he not see what I was doing, he couldn't even see who I was or what terminal I was using.


And if you believe that, I have the final source code for Windows 8 to sell you.

i hacked into my would-be nigerian scammer´s email account. does that count?

I hacked a metal pipe with a hack saw.

I have hacked a few 3,000 passwords, a myspace (lol yeah i know), got to a locked down command prompted and downloaded and corrupted all grades in my high school, I have also hacked into castlelearning.com to cause my grade to always be a 100 grade.

Back in ye olde Win98 days...
We haxored the head of IT dpt @ school. Put porn as his background etc. He flipped out so bad. That was good for a laugh.
His classes ended up getting supervised by a junior teacher young enough to be his daughter. He 'retired' after 6 months. Useless shyte.

Oh... we also hacked some library computers @ school.
But we were laughing so hard teachers came over to see what the fuss was and busted us.
6 month library ban, lol.

don't know? does knowing what a company is going to do before they do it and then having their product before its released count???? LOL!!!

i hacked some things i used an explot script in jedi knight jedi academy that made 50 bots connect to server and you can put what ever names you want on it good times!

Guys first of all, hacking is mean to exploit a security breach, not just installing something you found online. So yeah Script Kiddies != Hacking

Lets just say that I'm glad my computer science teacher/school's tech guy is to lazy to install programs (including antivirus) on computers of the students, and trusts us CS students with domain admin privileges. LAN games during break (with high priority), messing with people who are annoying, and blocking teachers from accessing the net. Best of all, he doesn't care. (btw, my school requires each person to have a laptop, so can mess with anyone)

i got an attack on my computer by some ip, i check the ip class owner and notice that this was their second class c. So i check their first class c that was the one just before and found a share that was open without password containing the info of around 25 000 people who was their internet customer (i was inside a computer of the ISP) beside that around 1000 customer was paying with credit card so i have their card number and expiration date.
to video the media coverage at the moment :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2wt7AitGS0
it's in french because it was in Québec, Canada.

I hacked my high school's .exe protector...
Then I installed games onto the C: drive (into the /Windows directory where the admin's detection software didnt search).
The only problem was I couldnt get the shortcuts, so I installed firefox to the quicklaunch bar, and navigated through the drives, got all the links and put them in my network drive.
I tampered with it soo much that the computer no longer was seen by the school's spy package thing, have no idea how it happened. I told my friends sitting next to me how to do it, and soon it was network wolfenstein in our computer class...

router
username admin
password admin