It was the first day of semester 2 of my final year today. The new free-elective module I was attending is called ‘Computer Security and Forensics’, but I call it ‘hacking’ for short. This module is gunna be great! It’s basically all the stuff I like to experiment with in my free time, but I get credits for doing it! Amazing.

The tutorial entailed sniffing FTP/HTTP/SSH/TELNET packets… nothing too intensive for the first lesson I suppose. It was cool though, helping Aryel learn the magic of Wireshark. The lecture was about the difference between Hackers & Crackers, what they are after, and how they go about it. Again not too intense, but it was entertaining never-the-less.

This has inspired me to write about some exploits of the past. The fun stuff that kept me entertained in my youth, that you just can’t do any more (wow I sound old);

Voicemail hax, Bluejacking, Netsend.

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