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That's doubly stupid. Every capable hacker is going to run the software in a VM or on a separate computer.
by guy98238710 9y ago
That's doubly stupid. Every capable hacker is going to run the software in a VM or on a separate computer.
- iancarroll 9y agoIn fairness, there are an incredible amount of incompetent “hackers”.
- malnourish 9y agoI would like to see the incompetent hackers who can reverse engineer and break non-trivial copy protection. I'm sure they exist, but I would imagine there's not an "incredible" amount meeting said criteria.
- brazzledazzle 9y agoAlso to be fair those are more often than not just someone using exploits someone much more capable found. Also to be fair, even if the cracker wasn’t paranoid I expect doing it in a VM is much more convenient since you can trivially reset your environment.
- stingraycharles 9y agoThey would only have to make one mistake and would be exposed. You would be surprised how often that happens.
- p49k 9y agoReminds me of a great episode of Reply All: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/21-hack-the-police https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/21-hack-the-police
- Mashimo 9y agoBut it looks like it worked. They got the logins for some other websites they did not had access to before. Logged in and found out how they could generate the keys. At least that was my understanding.