What skills would a person need to posess to hack into emails,social media and other websites?
none, cause its illegal
>>55239941
/thread
>>55239025
More than you'll ever have.
>>55239025
Need to posess the skill of being an immoral person willing to download illegal programs like keyloggers and know how to phish.
>>55239025
You don't need to study cybersecurity to know that she's cheating on you, anon.
>>55239025
Social Engineering.
Hacking/Cracking skills?
>>55239025
>hack
guessing simple-ass paswords is not hacking
>>55239025
Cleverness, problem solving
>elementary school
>friend gives me his password so I can bot his account on a game
>decide to test it on his email
>it works
>this was back in the windows live messenger days
>send messages to fellow girl classmates on his account
>message one girl who has huge tits for grade 7/8
>"boooobs, big booooobss"
>mfw go into school the next day and there was drama with the girl and my friend
>girl said she cried when she read that, friend was clueless
>mfw friend suspected me but I said it must have been the Asian kid who was claiming he can hack accounts
Good times.
>>55241150
>work as desktop support guy for schools
>teachers always bring me their personal shit to fix
>tons of nudes
>saved them all
even better times
>>55239966
>>55240385
real /threads right here
>>55239025
Some kind of social skills, considering the 'hacks' that get the most exposure are simply phishing scams.
Which excludes 80% of /g/.
>>55241325
They were all subtly trying to get your dick, anon. Instead, you creep them and go, "Huehue, here's you laptop back..."
>>55241150
Reminds me as well
>elementary school
>my friend has an e-mail account on a local website
>security questions get you into the account if you've forgot password
>not even a password reset, so no one would ever know
>type in his e-mail, forgot password
>second security question: what's your favorite food?
>type in pizza
>it was pizza
Great times when such security was acceptable on websites that offered free e-mail. I didn't do anything naughty though, it just made me realize how not secure security questions are.
>>55239966
>>55239951
What the fuck happened to you /b/?
Oh wait
social engineering