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Is it possible to legally benefit from discovered exploit?

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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-01-12 05:24
    CuriousOne,
    I've taken USB numeric keypad, and wired it to BS2 in such way, that stamp will send keypresses to PC...
    ....pressed the ALT key and datalogger software sent in some keypresses.......I've pressed OK, to see if system will accept these strange symbols as name - it accepted....
    So not only have you hacked their site. You have built hardware to automate the attack!

    Time to start destroying all the evidence, delete all your posts, trash your hard drive :)

  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-01-12 09:35
    It is very rare to find offers of introduction such as those offered by Ken Gracy or Beau Schwab into getting onto a good path with learning computer security. I truly hope you will reconsider following up on those.

    Adventure versus Mis-adventure.

    You may be doing some things that are rather harmless, but once hostile lawyers or Federal investigators take notice, you might find yourself with a lot of difficulties that you didn't believe possible. There is a big world out there that takes computer security very seriously and will come down hard to discourage anyone from exploring possibilities if they think you are at all a threat.

    So at the very least, stop mentioning that you are creating more exploits on a public forum. If you want to study and learn, do so in a community of people that have your best interests at heart.
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2014-01-12 11:57
    Yes. Take the introduction.

    Those do not come easily and getting perspective from another experienced person is so valuable I cannot easily describe here. Always worth it.
  • xanaduxanadu Posts: 3,347
    edited 2014-01-12 13:17
    Curious,

    That doesn't sound the slightest bit malicious, sorry for not giving you the benefit of the doubt. 20 years in IT I'm sure you'll handle the situation well.
  • CuriousOneCuriousOne Posts: 931
    edited 2014-01-17 12:00
    They've fixed it. Without my involvement at all :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-01-18 00:33
    They must have heard us talking...
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2014-01-18 07:45
    You gotta love the "just get it done" attitude of the NSA! :smile:
  • evanhevanh Posts: 15,935
    edited 2014-01-18 15:53
    CuriousOne wrote: »
    They've fixed it. Without my involvement at all :)

    You had probably generated a bunch of errors. Which means someone was actually paying attention at the other end.
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