I have a few questions about IP addresses and hacking. NOT ILLEGAL btw.

[macman666crack]

My friend and I both have macs. I think it's easily penetrable, but my friend thinks it's completely safe. So we're having a little contest to see if I can hack her and if she can protect herself. I have her IP address and password. Is there anything I can do? :)

[Sky Blue]

Yes, you can access her Mac remotely with her IP and username/password.

[macman666crack]

so how do I do it? lol. i have money riding on this.

[bartelby]

So you bet you could hack into her computer and now you're asking how to do it?


I'd say you've lost your bet.

[macman666crack]

$50 man. please help :o

[Consultant]

My friend and I both have macs. I think it's easily penetrable

Why do you think that? Any facts to back that up besides pure speculation?

[aristobrat]

Are you on the same subnet as her, or is she like at her house, and you're at your house, and you're going to connect over the Internet to her?

[macman666crack]

i see it as penetrable because if it was more widely used there would be a lot more hacks out there and viruses for macs. but thank god there aren't too many of us.

she is at her house and i am at mine.

[macman666crack]

would this work? if so, how would it work?

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-configure-two-ip-addresses-for-your-mac-mini-server-260989/

[aristobrat]

she is at her house and i am at mine.
She use something like a wireless Linksys router at her place?

[macman666crack]

yes i think so

[aristobrat]

You've pretty much lost the best.

If she has a router for her broadband (like a Linksys wireless router), then unless she's modified the routers default configuration, it's running as a firewall and will not allow anyone on the Internet (i.e. you, at your house) to initiate a connection to any computer on her internal network -- regardless of the operating system. Computers on her network can initiate connections out to the Internet, but not the other way around.

Even if you were at her house, with your computer on her internal network, you'd have a tough time hacking her Mac from your computer because IIRC, the Mac, by default, doesn't have anything turned on that listens. So if you scanned all of the ports on her Mac, hoping to find a program listening that you could exploit, there wouldn't be any.

Your best bet would be to write a package that would do something bad, and then trick her into running it. You know, setup a website that looked official and all, and then come up with way of making her think she needs to download your code and run it.

Either that, or go through the source code of every application that comes with OS X that connects to the Internet, find an vulnerability, write a website that takes advantage of that, and then somehow get her to point that application to that website. IIRC, that's how the professional hackers have done it during the last few contests.

But from where you stand ... sitting at your house, thinking you can hack her Mac, ... you've pretty much lost $50.

[dmmcintyre3]

Is her WiFi unsecured or secured with wep?

wep is easy to crack with the right software

[old-wiz]

Why are we helping someone hack into someone else's computer? We only have OP's word that it's a girlfriend.

[reclusivemonkey]

I think it's easily penetrable,

Obviously not for you.