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Old 03-29-2008, 06:43 PM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by willravel
No problema. The proof of PeerGuardian was when MSD asked me why I had 900 IPs in the past month I'd used to visit TFP.
I don't know how many it is these days, I ran a search and the browser timed out after 20 minutes of waiting for a response.
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Originally Posted by Martian
And it doesn't matter how good of a 'hacker' I am, I simply can't break into a properly secured system. The rules don't let me. Since it's difficult to impossible, then, to fool the system, most of the attempts to crack a box are aimed at the user, who is relatively easy to fool. Kevin Mitnick was mentioned above. The man is a god amongst geeks. He's a geek superstar. And even he was noted more for his social engineering abilities than any prominent technical skills.
This can't be overstated. The user is always the weakest point of a properly secured system. The strongest safe in the world won't help you if I'm looking over your shoulder and writing down the combination as you turn the dial, or I can just convince you to tell me what it is.
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