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Originally Posted by willravel
The person contacted her via myspace. All one would need to do is:
1) Find the myspace which contacted her
2) Check out the friends list of the guy (or girl),
3) Copy one of his friend's accounts
4) Send a private message from the copied account:
"John forwarded this app to me. Is this legit?" with a link to a site like www.thunderbord.com.
5) The link sends him to a site I'm hosting, I see his IP.
And I'm honestly a complete n00b. |
That's not "hacking" into Windows.
It's relatively easy to see someone's IP address. You can go to several sites to see your own.
To gain control (become root) of an OS is not easy to do without a lot of knowledge.
EDIT: To gain control of a HARDENED OS is not easy to do without a lot of knowledge.
Also, what you described is social hacking ... look up some of Mitnick's social hacking skillz. If you can gain the end user's trust then you've won 90% of the battle in gaining control of a system. It has nothing to do with the OS. If you trick someone into giving you control of your Mac then there you go. Anyone could win the $25,000 reward if they could get Apple to give them console access to the server.
Remotely commandeering a modern OS (without permission) is difficult.