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What Happens When You Steal a Hacker’s Mac

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Learned some pretty cool things. Like don't [insert expletive here] with a hacker's machine. :p
 
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LOL! Awesome!
 
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Makes me wish I could be that cool of a hacker...or at least know how to do what he did.
 
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idrinorbarsaku said:
Makes me wish I could be that cool of a hacker...or at least know how to do what he did.
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Not sure if I should feel sorry for the guy that stole his machine or not, cause he totally got pwn3d for life with all his personal info like posted like that.

Some of those pics were pretty lewd too. >_>"

I guess he kind of brought it on himself first for invading and stealing someone else's stuff.
 
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That is so funny :D
 
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Nice find mate . .. . . I actually saw this cpl months ago. I do believe there is a link here somewhere and im sure the8thark posted it in a thread . . . Not trying to burst your bubble ;P .... It was funny but im embarrassed by the dudes (aussie) accent lol

It made me cringe . . . . What made me laugh though is that this Hacker The cyber criminal of the web still needed police to get it back lol Well i find that funny anyways ;P
 
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Nice and all..but this is by no means a true "hacker" feat..since the machine had both SSH and VNC available..and since the user account was available, more than anything once the guy figured out the IP address of the machine in it's new home..accessing it was just about the same thing I do with my Mac at home..

Either way..dumb thief and worse schmuck who bought this Mac..

Regards
 
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TattooedMac said:
Nice find mate . .. . . I actually saw this cpl months ago. I do believe there is a link here somewhere and im sure the8thark posted it in a thread . . . Not trying to burst your bubble ;P .... It was funny but im embarrassed by the dudes (aussie) accent lol

It made me cringe . . . . What made me laugh though is that this Hacker The cyber criminal of the web still needed police to get it back lol Well i find that funny anyways ;P
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Really? That article was written just a day ago. Or was it another article? Because I usually look up articles before posting a new one, and didn't find anything on this...I know the8thark usually posts everything...
 
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Ill do a search this arvo mate Just going to work now .. .. . . . It could of been a link in a article or something but i did read it before christmas sometime . . . Good find and article though :)
 
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Ill do a search this arvo mate Just going to work now .. .. . . . It could of been a link in a article or something but i did read it before christmas sometime . . . Good find and article though :)
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oh...no hurries:)
 
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Good article. Interesting thing about keychain/keylogger - it was at the end of the video but he pointed out that If you use a password program - then you aren't typing in passwords for keyloggers to grab. I agree with him in that I am not comfortable with keychain as it is a single point of failure. I have started using 1Password - which is also a single point of failure - but I'm giving it a shot anyway.
 
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Im back . . . Would you believe it rained out today :(

Anyways i did find it mate, and im not sure how i got there originally.
It is on the Gizmodo ~ Australia; What happens when you steal a hackers Mac. Was posted on the 24th Dec ..... Hmmm pretty sure i read it earlier than that but anyways lol Still a good article and Kudos to you for posting it :)

Cheers
 
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That was pretty **** funny, would have loved to see the dudes reaction when the owner used text to speech to send him a little message!

TattooedMac said:
.... It was funny but im embarrassed by the dudes (aussie) accent lol
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I'm with you TattooedMac with the accent thing, weird!
 
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Thoroughly enjoyed that... even with the Aussie x American accent.
Would have paid to have seen the police raid on worlds dumbest criminals. :)
 

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