Yeah, we all do it, right? We let our browser store our passwords for all those sites we visit every day. It’s easy, it’s convenient, and it’s really easy to hack. Starry shows us how to reveal these passwords, swipe them and use them in another browser. Plus: he demos what you can do about this (besides not giving your passwords away to your browser).
[ Hacking Tools ] :: Using Netcraft with Starry Sky
Co-founder of School for Hackers Starry Sky gives us a video on hacking tools. This time he explores Netcraft, an intelligence-gathering tool for those of us who really just want to know a little bit more. Come on, just a little bit …
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Encoding to and Decoding from Base64 Format
There’s a form of hiding data that isn’t exactly encryption; it’s just simple encoding into another format that most people won’t be able to read. FTP passwords, for example, are encoded in FileZilla using Base 64 format.
You can get fancy and learn to encode/decode manually, but if you run into a encoded password, here’s a website that makes the process easy:
Hacking to Live
Hackers are clever techies.
The word “hacker” actually hasĀ nothing to do with crime: a brilliant engineer would hack out a smart solution to the problem at hand, and consider it a compliment to be called a hacker. There’s a whole culture built on this idea: seeĀ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture.
We are a community dedicated to learning and teaching. We don’t think knowledge should be deep, dark and secret – far from it. Everyone with the interest should be free to pursue hacking. Sure, if you want to, you can learn Linux and bash and networking. But you don’t have to do all those things, or any of those things, to be a hacker.
Consider how we do higher education: you are expected to take out loans and spend years living in poverty to get a college degree that may not fit anything in the job market, or even worse, might be passed by while you’re getting it. Who makes money on this arrangement? Hint: It is not designed for your benefit. You can be a brilliant hacker by learning skills that give you power – power because you are in demand. Hack the whole system by getting someone else to pay for your education!
We don’t restrict our discussion of hacking to just Linux, programming and networking, though we do talk about those things a lot. Feel welcome to bring us food hacks, lifestyle hacks, hacks of any and every system. Because that’s what we do: hack it to learn it, and hack it to teach it.