HIT Inc. Presents.. ® The Art of Password Hacking! ¯ PASSWORD HACKING: A FOREWORD ---------------------------- Password hacking is one of the major parts of hacking. At one time or another, you will have to guess, either educatedly or blindly. This textfile was written as a sort of hintbook. METHOD 1: MANIPULATION ---------------------- One nice way to get someone's password is to get the person to tell you it. for example, if you're in chat, make a textfile and upload it ASCII. this will make the text come out fairly quickly, and it may appear that the system is informing the user of an error. Have it say something like: HITBBS Error #99: User Verify Unknown Please Enter Password: and see what the guy does! Of course, you shouldn't do this on your own account. If you are caught, you'll be in deep shit, mister. So make a fake account, and do this shit. And make sure it doesn't have something that says: CRACKHEAD: HITBBS Error #99: .. etc. etc. In other words, make sure that it doesn't print out your name as you type it in. Otherwise, unless the guy's a fool, he won't buy it, and he'll get the SysOp on you. METHOD 2: OTHER BOARDS ---------------------- If you can get your hands on the user datafile for a board, and the person who's account you are trying to hack is in the datafile, then there is a decent possibility that it is the same password. There is a better chance that the password is somewhat related. So try to get your hands on the user datafile, and hack away! METHOD 3: BLIND GUESSING ------------------------ Now this is something that you must do if all else fails. It is known as the "brute-force method". Do this only if you have a lot of time and willing to make several (hundred) phone calls. And do it when you think the person will not be home or will not be calling the board. Use a password that you think is likely. Here are some hints. Likely passwords: 1) Relating to the person's real name, in some form or the other RealName: John Doe PossiblePW: doe, johndoe,jdoe,jd,johnd,john doe, doejohn, etc. 2) Relating to the person's handle, in some form or the other Handle: Victim PossiblePW: victim, vic, vict, etc. 3) A combination of the person's real name and handle, in some form or the other RealName: John Doe Handle: Victim PossiblePW: johndoevictim, jdvictim, jdv, johnvictimdoe, etc. 4) A combination of the person's real name and handle, along with a friend's real name, and maybe handle. RealName: John Doe Handle: Victim Friend'sRealName: Harry Hailey Friend'sHandle: Fuckup PossiblePW: johndoevictimharryhaileyfucup, jdvhhf, jdvhhfup, etc. 5) A person that the victim is interested in, e.g. a boy/girlfriend, someone he/she has an eye for, etc. RealName: John Doe MateHopeful: Janet Dove PossiblePW: janet, johndoeandjanetdove, j&j, etc. 6) A combination in some form of another of the person's phone number. RealName: John Doe PhoneNumber: 212-555-9099 PossiblePW: 9099, 2125559099, 5559099, 212, etc. 7) Name of BBS RealName: John Doe BBS Name: Crappy BBS PossiblePW: crap, crappybbs, bbscrap, etc. 8) A combination of BBS name and user name, user data, etc. RealName: John Doe BBS Name: Crappy BBS PossiblePW: crapjdoe, jdoecrap, johndoeatcrappybbs jd@cbbs, etc. 9) Mother's maiden name: Real Name: John Doe Mother's Maiden Name: Janet Ho PossiblePW: johndoejanetho, janetho, ho, etc. 10) InterNet Address Real Name: John Doe InterNet Address: j.doe@crapbbs.com PossiblePW: j.doe@crapbbs.com, j.d@c.c, etc. 11) School Name Real Name: John Doe School: Faggot High School PossiblePW: faggot, jdfaggot, jd@faggot, etc. 12) The name of someone they hate: Real Name: John Doe Person Hated: Des Meanie PossiblePW: Des, Meanie, Desmeanie, etc. 13) The name of someone they hate, with a "FUCK" or "ISSHIT" or something. (also maybe the handle) Real Name: John Doe Person Hated: Des Meanie Person Hated's Handle: Bastard PossiblePW: Bastard, fuckbastard, fuckdesmeaniebastard, etc. 14) A place where they live. Real Name: John Doe Borough of Home: Brooklyn Possible PW: Brooklyn, jd@brook, etc. 15) Combinations of the above Now there are problems. People nowadays are now using little spaces in their dialing directories to write down passwords, so they can use random alphanumeric combinations. However, that is not that common. So if all else fails, do the above. If all else fails, just guess like a rabbit fucks and just do your best! Figure things out that you'd do for a password, think why you came up with the password. Apply that to the person. OK? IN CONCLUSION ------------- If you try hacking a password, and you don't get it right... DON'T STOP!! Like, try anything, even leaving the SysOp a note saying that you forgot your password, please delete that account and start another one, y'know. Because if the real person calls and finds out that you've tried to hack, don't you think the SysOp will be notified?? Dat's it, folks. See ya when I see ya! Vortex[HIT]