Grandma is just recruiting for a hacking group.
Straight out of Watch Dogs: Legion
The GHackerz, no one would suspect a bunch of old granny's running an elite top tier hacking group lmao
I can hack Facebook.
hits F12
Look, I just broke into their CODE!
'now hack into Dianne's account and unfriend her kids'
Had a random guy that I spoke to at a bar ask me if I could hack a university to forge a degree for him when I told him I work in IT. Even if I could do something like that, it seems like a really risky and unethical thing to do for some rando at a bar.
I once had the knowledge how you could hack a government system to get free fishing licenses. Seemed like a high risk / low reward type of deal though.
It was a test. You failed 😔
I could probably do that in LibreOffice. Like, how hard is it to print out a thing that says "BACHELOR'S OF SCIENCE" in that stupid old school font.
So he was asking in earnest? Lol
He was drunk, but then again, so was I.
...but could you?
That's when you say yes, edit the page source in browser, show him it says he has a degree, get paid, and disappear.
Most of us older computer nerds and coders certainly tried to hack Facebook back in the 00's. To answer Grandma's question, no, we cannot.
Back in undergrad, before Facebook went HTTPS only, I would setup "free wifi" and steal people's cookies for shits and giggles. Use the cookies to authenticate with FB and send random messages to people.
Looking back, I probably shouldn't have been doing that. Definitely illegal.
They were just barely starting to get serious about legislating cyber security, so you were only maybe breaking some laws. I remember in the 90's it was a lawless land. There were no laws against hacking, or at least none that anyone understood, and most sites had terrible security. I gained access to someone's Hotmail once just by trying "anon/anon" as a user/pass combo. I also used to gain access to e-commerce customer databases just by googling certain SQL strings. I'd poke around and then send the webmaster an email letting them know their site was vulnerable.
So you know how to crochet? Can you make me a bulletproof vest?
okay but the amount of yarn that would require will make your vest impossibly huge & heavy to wear or walk around in.
I need a c/theydidthemath guy to...well...do the math on this one.
I've gotten this from friends.
I got this from a service technician once. He was like, "So you know code? Say I had my wife's phone, but not the password. How could I get into her Facebook Messenger??"
And I was like, "... So can you fix my drain line, or no?"
Sounds like that guy needs a marriage counselor, not a hacker.
Mr. Robot (2015)
"I've tried, you can't" to just end the conversation.
Too real
