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14160430? ago

Thank you for your bravery and strength.

Back in the Napster days of the internet I got into "hacking". I was known as the music man (give me an album and I can tell you what the singles will be) so I started loading Trojans into MP3s just to goof with my friends.

Well I guess one of my friends (her and her friend kept together) and I found out why. I can't forget the picture. I didn't know what to do besides destroy my hard drive. I was 13, not stupid. I knew her dad's connection, and I knew the UK was rotten to the top (Westminster Pedo Dossier). I moved country as soon as I was old enough.

I'm guessing what I saw was an "advertisement" of two pre-teen girls I knew. I can't forget. I don't remember faces well, but almost 20 years later I could draw theirs.

Sincerely, I thank you for trying to bring light into those dark places.

14161111? ago

You cant embed a trojan into an mp3.

Mp3 is a data file format and Trojans have to be executed.

14161711? ago

You rename an exe to mp3. It's less than 100kb and obvious, but most people don't have file info enabled.

14163307? ago

I think you mean renaming an exe to somefile.mp3.exe because if its still .mp3 (at the last part), it will open in an associated player and fail, doing nothing.

I think you also mean "show file extensions for known file types" which is what is not enabled for most (ie they only see the .mp3 part not the actual .exe at the end). Opening an executable in an mp3 player, does absolutely nothing.

I'm concerned you may not be telling the truth since those details are precisely what makes this technique work.

14163890? ago

Honestly can't remember, this was almost 2 decades ago. And I do remember using .mp3.exe but that only worked until ICQ/MSN Messengers started warning about .exe extension.

It was a game between me and a couple of friends.

The techniques I remember was just file renaming. And at that time I was sharing flash games and all sorts. I didn't modify code or write anything, just found shit on Usenet.

I don't know how I got into her dad's computer, I'm just assuming because at the time the only reason girls talked to the fat nerd was because I had the best music. I used to send 5 songs at a time, and I might have just dumped an exe in to Phish people, cause someone got me so I picked up that trick.

My career as a hacker was 6 months at 13ish. I knew people still running win 3.1.1 and nobody had antivirus, I am in no way proclaiming skill! Lol

14163975? ago

Ok, thats believable details. :)

BTW, that trick still works.... its just hard to push files to folks these days.

Stay safe. :)

14164475? ago

Thanks. I don't really tell this story to anyone, not even my wife. She knows enough and trusts me, I've done some crazy shit like at a tourist attraction and we're making a B-line for the vehicle because I've seen the same Arab photograph me and my daughter.

I figured it would still work, but torrents really killed direct file sharing. I think I might get a .doc from someone I know once every few months.

And Facebook killed any online social aspect that icq and msn had so you don't even talk to people commonly enough to say "hey I think you'd like this". Some killer spy app lifelog turned out to be, it stopped me talking to everybody lol

14165819? ago

Bingo.

Most tactics revolve around Man in the middle techniques now, turning us all into close proximity 007s.

Look up mana toolkit, a healthy starter.

The MITM sees cleartext through all the crypto, because he negotiates the encryption and redirect to both target and host, creating the illusion of straight comms, logs all to plaintext. Even snapchat, facebook, twitter and https forums (like this one). That's still kid stuff today though, ez mode w/ tutorials.

Disable your wireless. Hide your phone. It exists and works amazingly well.

14166018? ago

I'll look into that stuff, sounds like fun. I'll probably use it to snoop people's new partners, some of the girls in the family aren't too bright with who they date lol

And I didn't know about Taqiya. Thanks. I never trusted them, I heard what Sikhs said about them and from what I knew existed it wasn't shocking. Coffee boys wtf?!