Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers

• lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Social engineering has always been a form of hacking.

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• OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, because I agree.

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s usually an element of that with cracking passwords. Even if you just triy and pick the right wordlist for a target you’re already engaging in a way. The more you know about them the shorter the wordlist. And if you spend enough time getting to know shit about them you can reduce the wordlist to one entry because they told you the password. But it’s not necessarily a completely different process.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can argue it’s a classic ID-10T error in your workflow.

  But nobody has discovered a security vulnerability within the system architecture. This is the system operating as designed, abet with the wrong person standing in front of the terminal.

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  • em2@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s called a PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer.

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    • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      PEBKAC

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s cracking, not hacking. If you’re going to be pedantic, be correct.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      However you want to phrase it, they’re very different problems with different solutions.

      “Someone picked the lock on my door and got into my house” is meaningfully distinct from “Someone stole my keys”.

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• nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was hacking according to Kevin Mitnick (RIP) so, it’s probably safe to say that your view doesn’t need to be changed.

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