If you were...

[Mach33 818]

If you were a hacker (obviously programming is involved), what type of attack would you conduct, how big will your attack be (would be a large scale DDOS (DOS) attack, massive worm, etc)? What would your program do? A few examples are:

- Delete System32

- Re-write boot sector

- Overwrite everything

- Bring down a company, forum, or someone

Note: these are just a few examples of what a program can do, simply, a program can do a majority of everything...This is another use your imagination...

[Kaneki 1,073]

Hooo boooy..... not like I've been accused of this on other sites

But if I REALLY wanted to carry something out like that, perhaps re-write the boot sector of a big server farm.

Now I'm thinking of some Sombra-esque hacking.

[Techno Universal 2,575]

Well maybe I might take control of every computer in the world that has an internet connection by using a worm that silently infects ISPs. And only when every computer and server is infected the virus will be activated and it will take complete control over every single computer that's infected and nothing can be done to stop the worm without it doing permanent damage to the computer or sever network in reaction to a worm termination attempt.

[Yumekai 735]

Uh, despite me never wanting to do something like this I guess I would go for some malware. 

[Dreambiscuit 9,817]

I wouldn't hack anyone. If I had that kind of knowledge and skill with a computer I'd use it to do some good. Hackers are obviously very skilled at whet they do, so I never could understand why they'd want to waste that talent doing something pointless and unprofitable as just causing random problems for others. I'd be more interested in what a skilled programmer would do to help the world. 

[GrimGrimoire 4,973]

I would have no desire to do this to anyone. I could see pranking a few people non maliciously or something, But not destroying, corrupting, or sabotaging anything or anyone. It just does not appeal to me.

[PlzDelete 2,456]

2 minutes ago, GrimGrimoire said:

I would have no desire to do this to anyone. I could see pranking a few people non maliciously or something, But not destroying, corrupting, or sabotaging anything or anyone. It just does not appeal to me.

I agree completely

[Guest]

Oh I've done silly things like make hotkey scripts that eject the disc tray over and over again if someone presses ctrl+i or flash a distressing message, but nothing malicious. 

[TBD 17,254]

You must be crawzy having me to confess what  I would do as hacker xp

[Scrubbed user 3,416]

You'd be amazed what kind of information doesn't actually get deleted when you empty your inbox, or empty the Recycle Bin on your computer, or even delete your browser history. I'd go for the "bring things down" route.

[Kaneki 1,073]

13 minutes ago, Vulon Bii said:

You'd be amazed what kind of information doesn't actually get deleted when you empty your inbox, or empty the Recycle Bin on your computer, or even delete your browser history. I'd go for the "bring things down" route.

There's an interesting Vsauce video to go with that....

Also, an easy way to get rid of data is to write a bunch of zeroes to a hard drive with GParted (DO NOT DO TO AN IMPORTANT HARD DRIVE PEOPLE!). Takes forever, but does the job.

 

[CypherHoof 26,483]

20 minutes ago, Cloggedone said:

There's an interesting Vsauce video to go with that....

Also, an easy way to get rid of data is to write a bunch of zeroes to a hard drive with GParted (DO NOT DO TO AN IMPORTANT HARD DRIVE PEOPLE!). Takes forever, but does the job.

Pretty much, yeah. or dd /dev/zero. DBAN is the best option, but is massive overkill by most standards.

Note that for SSDs or flash media, NONE of that works (the system doesn't write to the sectors you tell it to) but that the ATA command set has a SECURE ERASE function that will work wonders given enough time.

In most cases though, the best option is to encrypt the hard drive before use, then destroy the key if you need to secure it - at that point, the data is not retrievable, and almost instantly so.

[Mirage 24,770]

I would hack into the Backbone, and several other super computers, to produce a god AI to serve my every need.

[CypherHoof 26,483]

15 minutes ago, Mirage77 said:

I would hack into the Backbone, and several other super computers, to produce a god AI to serve my every need.

Meh. you want Skynets? Because that's how you GET Skynets....

[Mach33 818]

I never meant (or intended) to do anything malicious...But, I can see how one could think that.

[Mirage 24,770]

3 hours ago, CypherHoof said:

Meh. you want Skynets? Because that's how you GET Skynets....

 

2 hours ago, Silent said:

I never meant (or intended) to do anything malicious...But, I can see how one could think that.

Serving my needs would not be malicious. And since we already have a Skynet - my god AI will destroy it. Can't have any competition.