QOTD: Have You Ever Hacked Anything?
Their crime is curiosity.
The term hack or hacker has become so commonly tossed around that it can mean different things to different people. The image of a hacker can often bring images to those who are less computer literate as someone who steals bank information in Superman III-worthy schemes.
We’d like to think of hacking as something that you have to do to get something working better or differently (such as bypassing the intrusive copy protection of your legally obtained software), but perhaps not as originally intended by the designer (such as installing Mac OS X on a PC). Of course, hacking can also be just what the movies make it out to be (breaking into other computer systems).
Feel free to share with everyone your most interesting hacking exploits.
Have you ever hacked anything? If so, what have you hacked and why?

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.
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'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
does that count?
'zactly
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.
that's the point of a hacker.
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.
And if you believe that, I have the final source code for Windows 8 to sell you.