Series 9 Episode 4 discussion

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(12-10-2010 11:20 PM)neuro Wrote:  Tariq could be easily any age from 25 to 35 I am 50 but people who I worked for though I was mid 30's

When you have physical access to the system its a lot easier to break in. And I have had to do this (leagaly) for work (I used to work for BT). We where asked to recover some systems to which the passwords had been lost and the third party who developed the system had had a major falling out with the end customer. And I was going to take over and run the system for them (online booking for one of the major cinema chains)

A bit of research and a chat with our reformed phreak and after getting the ok from 2 levels of management and the customer I popped over to there DC stuck in a floppy and grabbed what I needed and set some of our then powerful dual processor machines cracking it.

Took less than 48 hours to get a break (they used a week key) - I had considered setting up the engineering centers sun systems as a distributed cracking farm but that wasn't required.

Something like a EVGA Classified SR2 with the top end xeons on water cooling could probably do it in an afternoon – let alone if you loaded it up with 7 top of the line graphics cards and run the crackers on them.

Though to be honest some of the computer treknobabble isn’t that good any one know if they want a script consultant :-)

BTW nothing I mentioned here is secret I just worked in a standard engineering centre not the secret squirrels. And if I had time and budget I could have got hold of the cool gear which they only sell to approved organisations and could have cracked the systems directly.

And things have moved on the Stuxnet virus only needs to be on a memory stick inserted in the right machine for example.

... I think my brain just died.

Just thinking about Lucas again (dangerous habit, serious health risks attached) but surely after the time he spent in a Russian prison when he was 'innocent', surely he would be a bit more hesitant of putting another innocent person in jail?