I coined this phrase during DEFCON 20. I was asking a hacker friend who I usually see once a year at the con how he was doing with the ladies. He told me things were going way better than last year. I congratulated him and asked him what he was doing differently.
Tag Archive: hackers
Jun 11
Can A Hacker Get A Bus Pass!? Finally or Finale
I have been meaning to write this article since the beginning of May, and here I am finally getting some time to do so. I have had a car since May, so this is the LAST chenb0x award of this series!! It’s a bitter sweet ending, but while content might suffer, I don’t have to …
Mar 05
Thwarting a Social Engineering Attack
I work for a leading competitor of Walmart, hence the #4 item on my birthday wish list. While I am here, I might as well make the best of it and keep my hacker mind sharp. This story starts with a call over our Push To Talk line that reaches all stores in the Las …
Feb 25
DEFCON 20 Goals
Greetings, hackers! This year, seeing as how it’s the 20th DEFCON and all, I plan on being more active than ever before. This isn’t surprising though. Two years ago I was on 1o57′s Mystery Challenge contest and last year I was finally part of hacker jeopardy. Both events were with the awesome team, Ecip Tpyos …
Dec 12
Hacker Secret of the Day: Tools
Backtrack, sec-tools, asterisk… These are all tools that people in the info sec industry can utilize to make their job easier and more time efficient. My only warning to my readers is that your tools should enhance your work and not be used as a crutch. Could you call yourself a pentester if you were …
Jul 13
Remotely Deleting Your Contact Info With The Help of Smartphones and Facebook
This isn’t necessarily a hack of sorts, but it’s a neat trick that I found completely by accident. I was going through my list of contacts from my android powered smartphone when I noticed that one of my friends had a mobile number of all 0s. I went to facebook to send them a direct …
Jul 11
Asterisk, the Gatekeeper
Now, that this article has been published in the most recent Autumn 2011 issue of 2600, I can release it on my site. So, enjoy note: I updated the syntax from 1.2 in the article to Asterisk 1.6 syntax here on the site. Before the idea came to fruition I already thought Asterisk and VoIP …
Apr 06
MasterChen’s Top 6: Hacker Petpeeves
6. Will you fix my computer? Ah, yes. We can assume that if you come into contact with a computer hacker, by definition, he/she should be good with computers in general right? Well, hacking in a community sense covers more than just computers. Phones phreaking, lockpicking, urban exploring (loosely), can all fall under the “hacking” …
Mar 22
MasterChen’s Top 10: Reasons Hackers Are Your Friends
In this day and age people have even a slightly better idea of what hackers really are and what we represent than they did in the earlier stages of the Internet. This claim is based off of my own observations, so it is obligatory for me to defend this idea. Welcome to my Top 10! …
