Do you know how to hack computers?

Everything on the internet can be hacked and it is always happening. If you learn how the computers communicate and the different options for getting into others on the web then you can hack things. I never do except when asked to by my superiors.

Really, hacking is not a bad activities. Cracking is what you’re talking about (though is generally confused).

I guess that with some will, I could crack something up. It depends on what you want. Cracking Gmail or Hotmail accounts shouldn’t be easy UNLESS the user gives you, in someway, the password. A key logger would be useful here :).

Cracking into someone’s PC if they have an user and password for use it it’s pretty much a piece of cake, can be done in a few minutes with the computer, even for Linux (which is generally a much harder to crack SO).

Never done anything of this (except the keylogging stuff, but it was hacking, not cracking. When done, I told the person and told her to change her password. Not so much harm done).

I don’t know where I learned this. Just from the internet, I guess. Around. You know.

@Pk_JoA I’m talking about both hacking and cracking, but hacking is often used as a cover-all term for all those activities, so that’s what I went with.

Some of the stuff that I’ve done with my computer could be termed “hacking,” (essentially poking around in the software’s innards – in this way, I “hacked” my copy of Borderlands so that I wouldn’t die when the HP ran low) but never without guidance. For a while, I would delete parts of a URL to try to get to the website directory, but I think that only works with predominately-HTML sites. The one time that I actually tried solo work, I ended up destroying my registry.

I imagine that you can learn to hack if you learn enough about coding.

Check out the Jargon File; you may find it useful.

Yep, everything from simple passwords, to keygen application keys, to corporation enterprise level things.
Part of what I do for work so it has evolved over years and many tools.
They teach it as part of college level curriculum. They also teach how viruses are written.

As I know it, most hackers come from Asian countries like China. I have quite a few friends from Asia and they tell me that it is part of the University curriculum in some if not all Asian countries to take a hacking/cracking class. So if they’re the geek types, they will most likely follow through on their own and start practicing hacking other people’s pcs and software programs. Once I remember reading a news article about Romania that said someone in high ranking government position thanked Bill Gates when he visited their country for allowing them to hack MS software since no one there could afford to buy it.

You should see how many attempts are make in the Air Force daily. Many of those attempts do come from China.