More How to Explore
the Insides of Internet Computers -- from your Browser!
Evil genius tip: If your victim is
a Unix type computer, and if you can manage to download any program
with a name ending in the letter "d", it is probably
a daemon, a program that waits for the outside world to ask it
to do something. Exploitation of daemons is a common way
to break into Unix type computers.
You can go to jail warning: Breaking
into computers without permission is a good way to get a long
vacation at "Club Fed." Who knows, you may get
lucky and get to share a cell with a member of the Global Hell
gang! Then again, your roommate may be a guy named Spike
who is looking for a "girlfriend"….
Of course you want to read anything
that looks fun:
Figure 15. Just plain having fun.
Hmmm, now we know the email address of a guy who has root on
this box.
You aren't necessarily just stuck following
links through your browser. Oftentimes if you can just
guess the name of a file, if it is world-readable you can read
it. For example, one site I checked gave me this:
Figure 16: The directory /etc looks empty.
Aw, shucks, we can't see anything -- or can we?
Looks pretty empty, huh? But I
guess that it has /etc/group (because ANY computer that has /etc
should have /etc/group).
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