Mitnick mostly social engineered. Most of the big famous attacks at least involved a component of that.
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Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days agoThose are both way more useful than exploiting a lazy coder’s fuckup
I never said social engineering, physical breaching, exerting force on people, and other ways of compromising systems weren’t useful. They just aren’t hacking to me, otherwise the term is too broad to be very useful.
You’re free to come up with your own definition, I was asked to define it and that’s my best shot for now.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I think a better definition would be “achieve something in an unintended or uncommon way”. Fits the bill on what generally passes in the tech community as a “hack” while also covering some normal life stuff.
Getting a cheaper flight booked by using a IP address assigned to a different geographical location? Sure I’d call that a life hack. Getting a cheaper flight by booking a late night, early morning flight? No, those are deliberately cheaper
Also re: your other comment about not making a reply at all, sometimes for people like us it’s just better to not get into internet fights over semantics (no matter how much fun they can be)
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Your definition is probably better. I can very much vibe with that.