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Where are these teens learning these easy hacks from? I say easy because the police seem to have no problem tracking them down after the incident, hinting at a

Where are these teens learning these easy hacks from? I say easy because the police seem to have no problem tracking them down after the incident, hinting at a degree of slopiness in covering their tracks.

faangguyindia 2y ago
I've seen many people using LLM autohackers. Basically provide a system interpreter for LLM to run all hack functions on and off you go.
- bugtodiffer 2y ago
  Please give me a link, I highly doubt that.
Trab3n 2y ago
You can buy/sell copy/paste loads of different scripts and stuff from loads of different places. It could be as simple as they found a single way in dropped a randosomware and left. Never covered their tracks, used a VPN and so the IP address went straight to their address.
lmpdev 2y ago
If it’s anything like it was 10-15 years ago, YouTube.
- potato3732842 2y ago
  These days they can use ChatGPT and whatnot to track down all the pesky errors and omissions you encounter when trying to use those guides on anything but the exact setting the person making the guide is showcasing in their example. But yeah, script kiddies learn their skills online, same as it's always been.
blueflow 2y ago
There are easily usable apps that do ARP spoofing and render your own HTTP replies.
- potato3732842 2y ago
  Doctoring web requests with Burp and the like in order to circumvent arbitrary input restrictions on the client side is an absolute godsend when dealing with crappy web forms, legacy software, etc.
erinaceousjones 2y ago
Teenagers are inherently reckless, but arguably can have lots of technical experience/knowledge by the time they're 17. If you've been messing with computers as a hobby and a passion since you were 11, you already have ~6 years of self directed experience, and a bunch of free time outside of school (and if you're a smart kid, inside of school too, winging classes and skipping homework). Where teens fall down is their own overconfidence / arrogance / hubris / doing things impulsively, or generally just not considering (or possibly even comprehending) the full impact or risk of stuff they are doing. Like, understanding the technical side really well, but with a severely impaired frontal lobe. So I feel it's a bit of a disservice to say it's "kids doing easy hacks". Without extra context we don't know what exploits they used or what they discovered. Could've been something easy and well known, could've discovered something novel. I think the 17yo in question was indeed arrogant and I don't agree with their politics and I think it's unfortunate they've been indoctrinated by the right wing, but I would argue that they're probably pretty technically competent and motivated and I hope later on in life it serves them well and they make a whitehat career out of it.

faangguyindia 2y ago

I've seen many people using LLM autohackers. Basically provide a system interpreter for LLM to run all hack functions on and off you go.

bugtodiffer 2y ago
Please give me a link, I highly doubt that.

Trab3n 2y ago

You can buy/sell copy/paste loads of different scripts and stuff from loads of different places. It could be as simple as they found a single way in dropped a randosomware and left. Never covered their tracks, used a VPN and so the IP address went straight to their address.

lmpdev 2y ago

If it’s anything like it was 10-15 years ago, YouTube.

potato3732842 2y ago
These days they can use ChatGPT and whatnot to track down all the pesky errors and omissions you encounter when trying to use those guides on anything but the exact setting the person making the guide is showcasing in their example. But yeah, script kiddies learn their skills online, same as it's always been.

blueflow 2y ago

There are easily usable apps that do ARP spoofing and render your own HTTP replies.

potato3732842 2y ago
Doctoring web requests with Burp and the like in order to circumvent arbitrary input restrictions on the client side is an absolute godsend when dealing with crappy web forms, legacy software, etc.

erinaceousjones 2y ago

Teenagers are inherently reckless, but arguably can have lots of technical experience/knowledge by the time they're 17. If you've been messing with computers as a hobby and a passion since you were 11, you already have ~6 years of self directed experience, and a bunch of free time outside of school (and if you're a smart kid, inside of school too, winging classes and skipping homework). Where teens fall down is their own overconfidence / arrogance / hubris / doing things impulsively, or generally just not considering (or possibly even comprehending) the full impact or risk of stuff they are doing. Like, understanding the technical side really well, but with a severely impaired frontal lobe. So I feel it's a bit of a disservice to say it's "kids doing easy hacks". Without extra context we don't know what exploits they used or what they discovered. Could've been something easy and well known, could've discovered something novel. I think the 17yo in question was indeed arrogant and I don't agree with their politics and I think it's unfortunate they've been indoctrinated by the right wing, but I would argue that they're probably pretty technically competent and motivated and I hope later on in life it serves them well and they make a whitehat career out of it.