Re: "First Mission" just finished...but "Hackers" will start soon...

[Mark Baker <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Janne Kemppi <jkemppi@ees2.oulu.fi> writes
>       I am thinking of continuing the adventure by next putting
>       Miss FBI to assist Hacker in the conmputer crime (that is, 
>       she does all kinds of support work, like buys necessary HW
>       and suitable place to work for the gig)...
>
Don't forget that a lot of hacking is based on straight research:
dumpster diving for old printouts; finding out the names, birthdates,
family background of company employees; phoning those existing employees
of the target company (perhaps pretending to be a headhunter for a rival
corporation) to try and extract useful titbits of information; observing
employee movements (if you're planning on hacking a particular user
account, it's worth knowing when that user would normally be online);
etc. That's the type of research that an ex-FBI agent is ideally suited
for.

If the site (or target computer) doesn't have a gateway to the outside
world, or the firewall is too resilient, then physical access to the
office is often a practical solution... a bit of B&E, or a good con
trick perhaps. Again, work that an ex-FBI agent would probably find
themselves quite capable of doing.

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Mark Baker
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