The Backlash Cometh
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Thu Jan-27-11 03:53 PM
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Hacking Dragon Tattoo style. |
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For those who have read the girl with the dragon tattoo series, hacking into computers is a specialty for one of the main characters. My question is, just how easy is this to do if they're hacking into wired computers? Computers with land lines? If someone was hacking into your computer, can you see their programs in Task Manager? As for Task Manager, why would there be an Applemobile or Ipod program showing up if you don't use either technology?
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Mon Jan-31-11 08:43 PM
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1. It's almost impossible in real life. |
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Most people have firewalls. Large businesses are pretty much impenetrable. You would need a trojan horse, or something of that nature, that has code tricky enough so that an anti-virus software doesn't pick it up. Wireless is easier to 'hack' if people don't use security keys (the password to get into the wireless internet). Not having a password is extremely dumb.
As for the last question, if a program isn't running on a computer, it wouldn't show up in the task manager (minus some weird corruption issues, I guess).
Never heard of the book, though.
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The Backlash Cometh
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Wed Feb-02-11 10:43 AM
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I doesn't go into great detail as far as the hacking is concerned. In fact, I get the impression that she gets help cracking into certain organizations' files. The one time the movie showed them cracking into an individual's computer, the hacker was at a cafe and actually saw the porno files that were being downloaded by the crooked shrink.
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