[ a hacking we will go... ]

...a hacking we will go, hey ho the merry yo, a hacking we will go~

don't really care if i got the words right so, whatever. 2 days down and... 3 more to go. we've only completed 4 1/2 chapters and there's 21 chapters O_o. our lecturer is a psycho dude man. well, he is sane but... how's he gonna be finishing 16 chapters in 3 days?

i've been learning a whole loada stuff. just covered the steps taken to hack.. like the process/methodology. and today we tried cracking the password of one of the dummy pcs. quite the cool. learnt a bunch of new tools. some of which i'm in love with. the course comes with a lot of materials, which includes two cds. one has lab files and hacking tools (and viruses) which we'll be using during the class and another cd which has knoppix. an easy to install version of linux. something like that lar. linux, admittedly, looks kinda nice :)

okay, so the purpose of the course is not to teach me to become some notorious cracker, but to find out how it's done and what are the counter measures. dun blame me for the big words... it's all i'm hearing every other hour :P i also now know how to protect my pc a little better. planning to install a firewall soon (yeah, i'm firewalless so sue me) and try out some of the tools because at college a lot of things a blocked. can't even PING! ><

and in all of the most ironic things in the world.... and coincidental, one of my brothers went and install some crap shit application which had tonnes of adware spyware! i can't believe it. i just leave the pc for TWO freakin days and this is what they do. they're hazardous. omg, i'm gonna kill him later. there was so many data miners, trackers.. and even one uh.... hijack something. can't remember the name. well that's is suppose to help a hacker hijack into one of my session and do bad stuffs. and before this, even without the knowledge i've been receiving the last 2 days, i've not encoutered such a thing yet.

ah.. that's it for today. loads of reading to do ><. exam is suppose to be 2 weeks after we finish.

nal -- i'm innocent i tell you, i'm a good girl!! :p
dmj -- uh hmm.... ^^;;