stella40
Posts: 417
Joined: 1/11/2006 From: London, UK Status: offline
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I'm really very sorry to hear that.. I had something done recently which destroyed three of my websites (two pertaining to my artistic work) which caused a lot of problems. For example it cost me a good venue in London for the play I'm working on, and venues aren't that easy to come by. I'm also listed in Wikipedia (by who I can't say, it could be anyone) and I'm told that each month my entry has been vandalised so many times by hackers. I translated a book about this a couple of years ago. Yes there are programs which can crack passwords within minutes or a couple of hours using one of three methods (I remember one being the dictionary method, but can't remember the other two). A good strategy for passwords is to take a long word and reverse it and randomly place numbers within it, such as: motorway - y3aw54ro8t8om This would take anything from four days to a month for any cracking program to decipher. Most hackers use Linux and using this system you only need to have moderate programming skills in C++ or Python to be able to hack effectively. Any website can be hacked if the hacker can find an error or 'hole' in the php script, they don't have to crack the password. Hackers can also crack and intercept all IM programs and messages. You can't always trace someone who's hacked into a website because either they could be using a remote server or be using a false IP address. This much I understand. But what I can't understand is why anyone would want to use the Internet as a medium for causing other people they don't know inconvenience, distress, hurt, loss and pain.
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I try to take one day at a time, but several days come and attack me at once. (Jennifer Unlimited) If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
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