What's the most /cyberpunk/ thing you ever did?

>me some years ago, late teens >have this irc I hang out in everyday >one time a schizo joins in, posts this riddle and talks crazy soykaf >the others and I are hyped up and decide to solve it >at the time I had a very bad understanding on computers and programming but we had to do crypto soykaf and steganography >completely fascinated >spend all night drinking a little bit of vodka and several energy drinks >don't go to school next morning because I want to help the others solve it >after about 30 hours of staring at my screen we figure out the last thing we ended up with was a fuarrrking cat image with appearantly no meaning I think the schizo was just larping and laughed his ass off because we spent so much time on it, but to be honest I am thankful for this experience, I have never been so focused and excited ever again and I learned a lot about technology that day. The irc channel doesn't exist anymore but I had a great time and wish I would still be part of the old internet

There was a black friday sale last year where a online retailer had some kind of queue system made you wait before you could go to their site. I didnt even see it at first because uMatrix blocked the script that redirected you to the queue.

This is not my greatest accomplishment but was one of the coolest at least for my self. I was in my computer networking course and took down my whole Internet node using arpspoof in Kali Linux. Another achievement is going far on a wargame called bandit0, besides it being for beginners I lacked knowledge on the area but managed to go around level 30th. Another one was achieving admin access on my computer networking course and the auxiliary administration course and after that setting up a Counter Strike 1.6 server to play locally with my friends on the breaks.

>What's the most /cyberpunk/ thing you ever did? Pirated cable TV but refused to watch it.

Installed linux. So yeah guys, I'm basically real h@xXor now. Be warned.

>>22311 I wouldn't call that guy was either a schizo or larper, since it seems he succeeded in whatever his mission was in ways maybe even he doesn't appreciate.

one time I got famous enough to be in gallery shows and work with somewhat popular musicians under a completely fake identity I originally created to troll a facebook group. ended up styling my avatar as some kind of paragon of free culture... mostly because I couldn't accept money without doxxing myself. nothing too impressive from a technical standpoint but it taught me to love how malleable identity can be online.

>>22311 Created my own tech bunker. Somehow managed to live in an another country (East Europe) for about 3 months with false identity.

>>22322 He wasn' actually a schizo, he wad just larping as one to make it seem interesting

>>22324 Can you share pics? Sounds awesome

This is really cool OP. Are there any good irc channels left? Inb4 lainchans irc, I don't like it

>>22326 I have a law on myself that I should not share pictures/videos of anything about me nor my presence itself. Sorry.

>>22326 The bunker itself is under around my vicinity. It's not 100% Safe and Secure but it'll do its job as secondary option. The size of it is actually small and not well ventilated.

I digitally broke out a friend from a maximum security prison. He was given access to a networked computer for schoolwork and the dramatic prison break was done by pointing a sshd to port 80. He eventually got caught chatting but it was fun while it lasted.

>>22354 This is pretty funny and relatable. I and a friend were chums with the admin of the school network, so we used our relationship to find out about how it was structured. Once we had a general idea, we strategically ran some (admittedly primitive) sniffing software on some select nodes we had access to. With this we gathered a lot of credentials and cracked them using some social engineering and open source research (there's a few we never managed to crack, but you know, that's the game). We managed to get in and alter the grades of several people, including ourselves (why not with the shroud of mystery). Good peeps went up, assholes went down. Our crowning achievement was when we cracked the admin's password for the whole network (a windows domain controller) of our beloved friend. it was simple, predictably domestic, and rather humorous. "AlexWillWillConquorAll2001". Looks daunting, but that's what careful analysis will give you. We left him a present on graduation, a little message on the whole network. Don't know how he reacted, but I assume it was amusement.

>>22311 set up a lan hosting a soykafload of pirated content for my whole school to access at their leisure

I couldn't really go into details, but years ago I keylogged a bunch of people. I'm not even that technologically literate, don't program or anything... I used a bunch of freely available keyloggers\RATs and followed some tutorials for editing them to bypass antivirus programs Some times they'd get deleted, sometimes they'd go through without detection, sometimes they'd be detected but work anyway. I guess I can admit that I managed to keylog a bunch of my fellow schoolmates, I eventually got 'caught' because a 'friend' came over one day to use my computer for internet purposes and discovered I'd been logging in to a bunch of their friends' MSN messenger accounts. Those were pretty fun times in general, though. I was able to remotely access people's webcams, their email accounts. One girl at my school was a scat fetishist long before internet porn had changed the world. Was pretty fun.

>>22345 >>22347 Come on bunkerbro! At least tell us a little more about it. This is the dream of every lainon. please be real

The most cyberpunk thing I ever did was spend the day creating codes and puzzles for an ARG I was developing

>>22851 >ARG Whats that

>>22852 Alternate Reality Game. >>22851 What do you mean by codes?

>>22853 Ways of encoding text, like alphabet substitution but with multiple characters for a single letter

I only have a lame one. I had uploaded a pic of myself only momentarily to show someone but found later that Google took a cache of it. Because it was uploaded to Photobucket I was able to remove Google's catche of the image by deleting it then reuploading an image with the same file name and type which generated a new URL same as the old URL which Google cached again in a couple weeks which replaced my photo. >>22422 Were you spying on girls through their webcam?

>>22856 >Were you spying on girls through their webcam? Not him, but reminded me how when I was in middle school I used to go on unsecured WIFI security cameras and try to figure out where they were located at on a map

>>22311 changed the desktop background on a school computer to le happy merchant

>>22311 it's not really 'cyberpunk' anymore since its normal now but I made a significant amount of real money swapping around imaginary internet moneys

Back in 07, this IRC I hung out on was doing a huge phishing project on Myspace, using proxies that recorded logins and a 10000x10000 clear gif placed on people's pages that'd redirect to a phishing site once clicked. All the logins would be sent to a central database where you could search it and get access to people's accounts. Anyway, I took an interest in the project and suggested some ideas. One of those was the ability to search by IP range. With that added, I could now search my own range and get people in my hometown. The goal then was to spread the clear gif around in the hopes of eventually getting to people I knew (or rather, girls I liked and their boyfriends). Then I could see their private messages and maybe even some nudes. Too bad it went nowhere. Manually combing the list took too much time out of my day, and within the week I gave up on it. Didn't even get anyone I knew, either.

>>22311 A few years ago, I went to the states to visit some friends. While there, we stopped at a College briefly. I noticed a bunch of fliers about a survey for people who had used drugs in the past. They gave 10$ Amazon giftcards by email for participating in this survey. I'm in Canadian dollars so this was substantial. I copied the information down, and when I got home I created a few dozen emails and did the survey over and over again. They never checked my ip so I had no limit on the amount of times I could do it. Maybe not as technologically advanced as other posts, but I wrote it because the technological ineptitude of this Liberal University net me a few bucks. Americans, I'm sorry for being a parasitic leech, but if they didn't want someone to do this they should have taken precautions and not had such a reward.

>>22311 Hmm I probably have some good ones. 1. Ran and spied on a TOR exit node with 2 other people. None of us had any idea who the others were or what their interests were in doing so beyond meeting on a chan. We found lots of interesting data too but I doubt you'd see much today. 2. When I was a kid I used to use my scanner and soundblaster to decode the old POGSAG pager system. Then I'd make prank calls based on whatever traffic was being broadcast. I liked calling the 420-xxx-xxxx pages claiming I'd killed their drug dealer but I'm still hooking anyone up if they need drugs and have cash.

>>23404 Oh hi, I also hanged out in partyvan IRC back in those days and I remember I got my gmail derezzed by Google for using it to help spread the phishing. One of the people who ran the operation gave me like 7 phished steam accounts.

>>23468 wdym spy on? It's all encrypted traffic, no? Best thing I could imagine would be something like what pages get visited most etc but that's not spying if you ask me

>>23477 The exit node is basically just a proxy (huge oversimplification but essentially true for this use case), so it can view traffic sent through it since it has to send the data to the clearnet site. Always use https to prevent exit node mitm attacks or use hidden services as much as possible.

>>23484 Yes, obviously. https is what I meant with encrypted. https is long established so how would anyone spy on me?

>>23485 There are still some sites which don't use https, plus there are attacks related to https like ssl stripping or using your own cert. I'm not the guy who did this, but it might also be the case that when lain was doing it, it was before browsers had good warnings about invalid certificates and when https was less widespread.

>>23485 >Yes, obviously. https is what I meant with encrypted. https is long established so how would anyone spy on me? That's why I said you probably wouldn't get much today. To get an idea what you might find search for "The great em/b/assy leak" which was the result of someone doing the same. I did it even earlier than that.

>>23404 >Back in 07, this IRC I hung out on was doing a huge phishing project on Myspace, using proxies that recorded logins and a 10000x10000 clear gif placed on people's pages that'd redirect to a phishing site once clicked. All the logins would be sent to a central database where you could search it and get access to people's accounts. Hello friend!!!! It's me from this post!! >>23468 I almost talked about this instead. I was there too!!! Great times 80k some myspace accounts. Massive chaos, good times. Lmao!

>>23477 No there was a ton of unencrypted traffic. This was 2005 or 2006 Here's what happened when a dude did in in 2007 and didn't know what he was looking at. https://encyclopediadramatica.wiki/index.php/The_Great_Em/b/assy_Security_Leak_of_2007 He thought he was looking at legitimate user logins. He was actually spying on OTHER HACKERS. So you can imagine.

Not exactly cyberpunk but it made me feel like an E-1337 H4x0r as a kid. In high school all the computers used some kind of soykafty Novell network software that didn't let you do anything except save files to your network storage, print, and run a short list of approved programs, but there was an account that seemed to bypass their bullshit and just run as a local user on the machine. So you couldn't access network drives or printers or anything like that, but you could run any local programs you wanted, including cmd.exe and what ever you brought with you on a flash drive. The password to this account was ALWAYS a Star Wars character, so even when they changed it it was easy to figure out. I used to use ssh to tunnel all traffic to my home computer to bypass the schools firewall, and I had a USB drives with a soykafload of emulators, doom, quake 3, etc on it. Later live usbs would become a thing and I would just reboot into kali or ubuntu instead. A little more cyberpunk. Just at the end of high school or just after I built a beowulf cluster out of the ever growing mountain of old PC's that had made their way to me one way or another. I didn't really know what to do with it, since i didn't have any goals at the outset. I just thought it would be neat. I made a little money with it cracking password protected zip and rar files for people. Since the strongest node in the cluster was still only a dual core 2.4ghz Athlon, it likely cost my parents more in electricity than I made cracking passwords. I'm now 30 and haven't done anything cool since

>>22311 Built a meshnet out of old laptops and ByzantiumOS at my parents house in the forest so I could hook up Webcams and get photos of animals on the land.

I published a digital artwork with a hidden steganographic punchline. I don't know if anyone will ever notice the clues and find it but I like it.

>>22397 i've done something similar, but only a handful of people i know use it.

Was checking my hometown for places that could be potentially usable as stashes, that are compact enough to hide a thumbdrive or anything else of similar size

>>22311 ARGs are being used by some companies to motivate their groups and even trainees. There's a research about it, making things ARG-like gives it more attention than normal.

I'd buy used locked phones from the US, jailbreak them to use them in my home country with the local carriers and sell them to partially pay for college and get drunk

>>22849 UKR. That's it come find me. I cannot tell specifically the logistics but I am going to tell that it costs £££.

>>22849 I wouldn't call that a dream in fact I would call it a Half assed nightmare.

>>22312 Got tickets to a musical festival in the exact same way

I’m developing a private decentralized crypto exchange Also used to do a bit of urbex

I recorded this video. https://youtu.be/8GPGQoR6f6w

>>22311 I got a job at [undisclosed govt agency] even though I hate the govt

>>27263 It looks like an intro to a cheesy porno.

There was this "bank" owned by a car manufacturer, and their site wasn't updated since like the 2000s. I was able to hack it using a basic SQL injection, and got inside the account of an administrator without knowing any username or password. Since I had been an intern and had contacts from people inside I warned them and they fixed it. To contextualize the next 2 stories, I am 18 and graduated at the "start" of the pandemic. My school had set up a site in which you could have access to video lessons, quizzes (homework) and tests. They could also know if you watched the whole lessons and where you had stopped watching them, and if you jumped anywhere on the video they would not consider it as complete. However they accomplished this by sending packets with our (unencrypted) credentials and some additional information identifying the lesson (+ an array of each checkpoint you had hit in the video which was registered in intervals of 5 seconds, although later this system changed). The first thing I did was make a python script that watched the lessons in a matter of seconds (they could range from 50 to 100 minutes), which I fixed after the system updated. For some unknown reason after you used it, the school system that you made the questionnaire after the video and scored a 10, even though my script never touched the questionnaire part. The second thing I did was related to the tests. To contextualize, after you did a quiz the site would immediately show you your score and which (multiple choice) questions you got right or wrong. Now back to the story. Since most of my teachers made multiple choice tests, they knew we would cheat (and they chose (?) not to use lockdown browser), so they made harder tests and when you finished the tests the grades wouldn't be published until either everyone made the tests or the time limit to do the tests was over. However I discovered that the test system was based on the quiz system, and even though the site did not show you any information, the server sent you a packet with your grade (if every question was a multiple choice question) and the questions you got right or wrong. I had friends though they were quite a few, but my brother was rather popular, so I asked him to join the biggest cheating group he was a part of (which included most people in my year). When they did tests they would enter a big group call and do the tests together, so I joined them and taught them how to inspect packets in their browser, so with each test done there would be less and less errors (and generally after the third test we already knew all the right answers), creating the biggest and most efficient cheating system in my school to date. I also had friends from the previous year, so I gave one of them that knowledge and the script, and told him not to share any of this, which he probably didn't since he was also introverted and kinda hated everyone else to some degree with few exceptions. Because of that I know that they fixed the test system in the middle of their semester, but the script for watching lessons worked until he graduated. Now all of this knowledge is useless, the script is no longer with any of the current students, and from what I heard grades and motivation of the students are rapidly declining.

It was very strange to me when I learned that the CIA were bronies that used cat pics to exchange information. Seems like you may have been taunted by one of them.

>>23558 Dope. Using skills in the service of science is the highest purpose of humanity.

>>27263 That was awesome. I liked the CGI hacking scene. Those were better days.

>be me >2019 >be in another city >go to a cybercafé (yeah we still had those) >pc is freezed >go to chrome to download some music >realize there's a Gmail account still linked in the browser >go to gmail >soykafload of information of that person >i think fast of how to anonimize myself while stealing that information >remember soykafty chan filled with kids >post there >go to his facebook/twitter whatever social media account was linked with that gmail >check emails >hes a proffesor >lets call him dave >see an email derivate from the one im using >MMMM DAVE. I GOT YOU DAVE. >probably is the main account with the main accounts of other social media (the one i got is clearly for work) >realize thats too far (you'll know why later) >i post on that soykafty chan what do they want me to do with it >wait a day so the post gets enough people interested >the post fuarrrking explodes for that chan's standard of time >i start telling students a way to "pass" without effort >you already get it >post that in the chan >post explodes 2.0 >the post gets bumped a lot and gets lost in the meantime >i post one last time >say i'm gonna give the password to some random dude with some dices and correct number wins >they dont wanr that they just want the password >bait nonstop for them to plague their IPs into the log so mine gets lost >some random kid gets upset and blocks the account >i post all the information i gathered (i still have it, it's in spanish) >flee from there >one year and a half later the cybercafé closes and their owners sold the house

> be dumb nigger > download H game via torrent > watch it download the entire time > just stare at it > ask myself what I'm doing with my life > kill -9 life

>>22311 Moderated a darkweb forum and using the powers that came with it to strengthen my own position as a vendor. Always fun to confirm and verify your own stuff. Also stole the admin network account at my high school way back so that I would have permanent network access during exams and similar and could use the schools network as much as I wanted during class, even when teachers turned it off. When this was discovered 2 years later and they cracked down on all the leaked admin accounts that we had spread all over school I switched username and password with someone in another grade so that we could use each others accounts whenever one of us had a test or our teachers were cracking down on internet use during class. At one point I was planning on setting up hidden wifi connections in the vents and accepting monthly payment for access, but was too scared of getting caught setting them up. I am also running a Monero node with some heavy mining equipment. Not for profit, but to protect the network and my own investments in it. Majority of my holdings are not in Monero, but atomic swapping btc to xmr is a necessity. Centralized exchanges are not acceptable.

>>22379 I did something borderline identical and got arrested. Dropped out and got a job in security.

Cyberlife (revived jinteki.industries) https://cyberpunk-life.neocities.org/ Backup MHT of Cyberlife: https://anonym.to/https://anonfiles.com/x0s1r451x6/ jinteki.industries (404) https://anonym.to/https://archive.is/e8JVO https://anonym.to/https://github.com/Hal47/cyberlife-site

>>22311 >move into houseshare >house router is in my room >use hydra + rockyou to brute force password >doesn't work >google router model name to find default password >im_in.jpg >rename wifi network >use hostapd on PC to make wifi network with original name and password >use iptables to redirect traffic between fake network and real one >use moxie kikenose's sslstrip >log everything >house mate wants to show me his ebay is not loading properly >"you do computer soykaf, what's wrong with my computer?" >panic.jpg >go back into room >shut everything down >"dude ebay is working now, you're a fuarrrking genius how did you do that?" >sigh.jpg

Not so impressive, but it's funny, that steam also keeps the time when the achievement was gotten.

>>29464 Do you also then wake up at 7pm and get takeaway for breakfast? That's also pretty cyberpunk.

I managed to shut down every computer on the same network in middle school based on some tutorial I found on YouTube. I of course told everyone about it and got in trouble. Didn't know soykaf about hacking back then and still don't.

>>22422 >>22379 >>23404 >>27325 >>29456 Not trying to appear morally superior or anything but I would feel so dirty and hate myself even more if I did any of these. >>27303 >the CIA used cat pics to exchange information. Sounds like something out of a modern comedy spy movie. Somehow I believe it.

>most /cyberpunk/ thing you ever did (How would I know? I never rank things in my head and constantly forget things) ¹ Used Windows remote folder sharing to get into roommates' Public folders and go through their pictures ² Got onto a soykaf WinXP whose sysadmin apparently tried to hyper-restrict like I couldn't open the Control panel directly for example but it was such a soykafty job that I literally had to click on things that weren't expected of me to crack it all open. ³ Used good ole netcut to decide who could use the wifi and when. Also ARP'd the fuarrrk out of anyone who did with Cain&Abel, and used it to spook people out by telling them what websites they visited. I guess it's all just hacking stuff soz Besides getting into web ip cameras from shodan and fighting with kiddos over some stranger's house camera controls.

Meanwhile, skiddies are still at it copy-pasting from tutorials.

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>>22311 sucked my own dick

Sending CDs with cracked software to my buddy, and hiding thumb drives with pdfs and cracks in public places for some people to recover later on. It's pretty nice, learning how to hide stuff anywhere.

>>29623 what kind of stuff would be on the hard drives? games? cracked adobe products? Also, why are you hiding them for other people instead of just giving it to them?

This was the most cyberpunk even though it wasnt the most tech involved stuff I did >was 15 or 16 >summer >no friends or things to do >decide to get into hacking a bit more than just skiddy soykaf >spend a couple of days to crack neighbours wifi pass using free tier AWS >get serial number of router through UPNP and get into admin panel of router >enable telnet and ssh on router >download all files from router >MITM the soykaf out of his network >find an exploit in website of router >find about ASNs so I decide to scan whole ISP network for those routers (just basic http banner greping and few scripts to exploit it) >had a simple 80 count botnet and some juicy info like Voip logins and internet logins >could MITM and extract more >got bored >deleted it to be honest was fun 3 weeks of no sleep just adrenaline junkie hacking

>>27165 Can I get a link?

>>27165 any cool urbex stories?

>>29643 Mostly games that I liked and got cracks for, but also some utility-ware like benchmarking and image editing software. I try to hide everything about myself, not only from the net, but also offline. I told people where to get the stuff, and then they got it. I never sold anything, so receiving cash never concerned me.

>>22311 Given cyberpunk isn't strictly hacking... I attended a live algorave (Live-coded, algorithmically generated music) performance from a techno and industrial collective in a little club hidden inside a parking garage in the middle of rainy autumn tokyo. Given I was going there to go buy music from the greater doujin scene, which at the time had little more than a webpage and sometimes if you were lucky an online listing for their physical CDs, I had a loaded discman, brand new CDs and a pocket sequencer (PO-16) in my little satchel. In those moments, and especially walking down the neon-filled streets with a public umbrella and some reveb-drowned tunes, I truly felt like I was living inside a 2814 album cover, not as the 1337 hacker, but as some rockerboy he likes. It was good times, glad I got to live it.

Spent a few days at the airport because they have sockets for my laptop and free WiFi. My home network setup also looks like very cyberpunk (or maybe rather ghettoypunk lol). Picrel is the router/gateway running cross compiled Gentoo with an OpenWrt container on top. Cost me 18€. Through Wireguard I can use SIP to make free calls from anywhere. I also run a Tor node. Gets a ton on of traffic and has the guard flag, so I can see who connects to look at pizza.

>>29715 What percentage of your tor traffic is from nonces?

>>29715 do you report those freaks? also, did you sleep at the airport? I think that's something people do but I would be paranoid of getting my soykaf stolen. Did you have to move to different terminals to not get kicked out? Did you just plan a weekend you had off to do this? Asking because this sounds like something I might want to do and sounds super interesting.

>>27165 >>29649 or some pics you took would be nice too.

>>29716 I have no idea. >>29721 I don't actually log or check up on who's doing what. I'm not sure I even really could unless it was clearnet websites without SSL. Yes, I also slept at the airport. The benches were uncomfortable as fuarrrk so I only stayed for a week or so, but yeah. I kept my stuff in a bag when I didn't use it (really just my laptop, keyboard, mouse and a few smaller items). I had money in my bank account, so buying food in the few shops that were open was easy. Whether or not you get thrown out depends on the airport and general attitude to homeless people in your area. Even within my country there are huge differences. In some areas you'll be left in peace unless you make a ruckus. Maybe police will ask for your ID, but not throw you out. In another place (different state or something) fuarrrkers will throw you on the streets if you sleep inside without a ticket. Roughly speaking, avoid doing it in conservative/right wing areas. All this was sometime early-mid 2020, so the airports were empty except homeless or other weirdos like me.

> me, 9 years old > 3rd world country > no pc at home so i visited cybercafe a few days a week > winXp machines, pretty normal at the time, everyone used them. > cybercafe has a timer that turns off the pc when the prepaid time is over > since i was a curious kid, i started looking around the cybercafe pc files and stuff > do a ctrl + alt + supr, opening task manager. Start looking at the running processes > discover there was a process with a name i didn't recognized. turns out it was the background app that managed the session timer. > closed the process, getting free time at the pc > get discovered because i stayed a lot of time on the pc and the manager got suspicious (i was an innocent kid) > fast forward a month: buy a flashdrive at the cybercafe, gets scammed (flashdrive dies in like a few days) > starts visiting it more and more, closing the session manager every time to use their machines for free, till eventually i got derezzed. those were simpler times

I dabbled in matched betting in high school to withdraw the sign up offers on every gambling site I could find. Practiced counting cards, too, but only used it once.

>be me >web developer >broke >post in some community offering dirt-cheap services >go out with the girlfriend that night >riding the bus >receive mail notification of private message >some dude is looking for an expensive wordpress plugin >send download link to pirated plugin >get paid US$5 in crypto >get off the bus I felt like some kind of illegal information dealer that night. It was kind of awesome.

>>30752 this is how i feel telling my normal person friends how to download roms or getting them the textbooks they need for uni classes off libgen

>>22311 It's such a normal person-style to use the word cyberpunk on any stupid soykaf you do.

>Feeling the cool breeze of an open window as all 4 cores scream 30,000 keys/second

>>27268 This scene if I remember corectly is more well written than most movies. The reason he asks for password and the other dude is confused is because it wasn't needed. He later returns to his pc and tries to use that password to check what the contents of the disk are, only to be greeted with a second password prompt. Catalinavile in general is a pretty good movie that has the (mis?)fortune of being a cheezy gay porn flick.

>>30760 >hashcracking on CPU NGMI >>30752 now you know how poojeets feel >>30759 this >>29894 simpler times in the young hackers life ahhh

>>22311 Almost every Dilbert comic is something that happened to me personally or that I have witnessed. Dilbert is the most cyberpunk work of fiction that I know and it is uncomfortably familiar.

>>30764 >hashcracking on cpu >It's an i7 I wouldn't dream of trespassing, lain, that's illegal. I'm just curious.