Any Hackers?

[hooplala]

I'm working on a story at the moment which includes a minor character who is a "hacker" (for lack of a better word)... problem is, I'm not so computer savvy.  I know we have some people on the board who are knowledgable with matters such as this, and was wondering if anyone wanted to volunteer to allow me to PM them occasionally with a search for a proper word or method on this topic?

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

While I don't do the illegal stuff, I hang out in the culture and have friends who know the appropriate terms.

[hooplala]

You ok with me pestering you on occasion?

[Pæs]

I'll keep an eye on my PMs if you like. Break/fix web apps as a hobby, read a lot of tech news.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

You ok with me pestering you on occasion?

Wouldn't have piped up otherwise

[v00d00]

I've had my day researching hacker stuff, I wrote a couple computer viruses, and I am a linux user, and I am acquainted with some of the msot common attacks and vulnerabilities as well as some cryptography. So PM me if you want

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I wrote a couple computer viruses,

[Faust]

I'm pretty up on current event's and technologies for work purposes but don't use them beyond packet sniffing and encryption for work.

[v00d00]

I wrote a couple computer viruses,

Lol. yeah nothing big actually, an overwritter and an appender for .com files in DOS
None of them saw the light and nobody uses DOS so don't you worry.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I wrote a couple computer viruses,

Lol. yeah nothing big actually, an overwritter and an appender for .com files in DOS
None of them saw the light and nobody uses DOS so don't you worry.

I'm not worried.  It's more that I view virus writers in the same light as I view people using 3D printers to make weapons.

"Stop pissing on MY future."

[Pæs]

Depends on what the aim was for writing a virus. I've written loads of malicious code, so I could understand how it worked and get a better idea about what I'm looking at when reverse engineering the viruses of others.

[Pæs]

Actually, hijacking this thread to ask whether anyone would be interested in an explanatory thread about internuts security where questions can be asked and answers given because I actually quite enjoyed writing massive posts at Hoopla speculating on how to attack hypothetical targets.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I'm up for it. It's not like they can watch this site any harder than they already do 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

One of my friends is a professional, I could ask him if you want.