keep getting hacked (Solved) and yes it's true

albright · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:11 am Post subject:

this has *got* to be the weirdest and maybe most amusing
thread I've ever followed and what a plot: from sinister hacking,
to suspicions about the poster, to comical denouement ... can't
be beat

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who needs jabber when we can all share keypresses

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Fruitwoot · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:24 am Post subject:

Well, that is true and this is one thing about "spying" 101 probably

I also heard about a lot of others electrical things that combined together may emitted waves that can be decrypted.

This story is incredible ... logical but incredible by itself by the way it happens and been discovered ...

I know some guy who may offer this keyboard to some girls

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tence_g · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 3

Well...I guess it's a good time to change your RF chan... lol
funny thread though

yeti · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Madison, WI

Is it time to rename this thread to "keep getting hacked [solved]"?

That will add suspense for anyone new reading along...

DocReedSolomon · Guru Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 419

great thread, someone should make this sticky :lol:

btw: i dont care if this is serious or not, never had so much fun recently :lol:

rek2 · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject:

I should say "cracked" your system.
he cracked you system with a hack..
HE just following the fun.. o_0
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Corona688 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 1204

To those who thought the neighbor wouldn't have been saying odd things: Consider he probably thought HIS computer was being hacked. That would be a very strange conversation!

Some wireless keyboards can achieve a suprisingly long range! Between rooms, hell -- there've been reports of interference between adjacent floors. They go a lot farther than I've ever seen a wireless mouse go... It's a much lower bandwidth thing, I guess they use a simpler signal that takes more distance to garble.
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saffsd · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 139

Definitely the most entertaining read I've had on this forum in awhile! I'm not convinced it's true it's certainly a hilarious premise. I wonder how long it will be before something like this makes it into a mainstream sitcom?

svenk · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:59 pm Post subject:

I think it's the question what exactly he's able to do: Perhaps the complete (linux) system has already been "anulled" by a kernel rootkit - then you aren't able to do anything any more if you're not an expert.

I think at first there is only one question:

How does the "hacker" communicate, which means which possibilities does he have? (for example: user account -> wall messages?; free X11 access -> all X possibilities?; X Root account -> everything?)

You haven't described that process at all. For example:

He's sending you wall messages: They appear in all terminals and are probably displayed by your Desktop Enviroment (KDE does that) and surely even logged by your logger. To send these messages, he needs access to a local user account, even things like "guest" or "nobody". In general, you should be able to read who's send the message.
He's controlling your session via VNC: This may be the most confusing thing, because he can control your graphical session, send keys and mouse events and see the contents of your screen. Perhaps you're running an open VNC server who's not protected by a password
He's even controlling your whole X session: Perhaps you have disabled X server access control and any client may connect to your server. A Xclient can do everything, even recieve all keyboard inputs, ... - see especially "xhost" and "man xhost"
He's written a program which opens a backdoor ("trojan"), so he can connect via that service. Perhaps he's installed that program when you have not been at your computer (that would assume that he's a family member, a near friend, a neighbour, etc.)

That are only very simple examples. But it's really strange that he's (obviously) "cracked" your computer three times after you've reinstalled everything. Maybe you should improve your security strategy ;-)

Sven

EDIT: LOL - I've not seen that there are already four pages of discussion and the thread is already marked as "solved" - sorry for my stupid help ;-)

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In all honesty I have elected this thread to be "thread of the decade" for me. I won't say anything more :lol: