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- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+88very informative too... half of the video shows how to connect the damn wire to the calculator.
- dokbeast7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+74Pretty sure it's fake. I've written lots of calc programs, and notonly do they not have ".exe" at the end, but the names aren't allowed to be that long either.
- lunchbox170, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54I think that it is funny that everyone here at digg knows that this cant be done but people over at youtube think its the coolest thing, and believe that it actually works.
- Arnold22, on 10/12/2007, -6/+53This does work I use it all the time. I also use my calculator to write papers for me the program is essaywrite.exe just 30 dollars on thinkgeek, totally worth it.
- spartan018, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49definately fake. TI-83/84 can only fit 16 characters across the screen, this shows room for 21. i've also written way too many calc programs.
- ckirsch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45Anyone notice he didn't specify the account to be hacked?
- Rabbethan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42That's because the people on digg are who the people on youtube call when they can't find the "any" key.
- tzmguitarist, on 10/12/2007, -8/+38Must have had. Not 'must of'.
- Recuso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28That camera work was NAUSEATING.
I'm not usually one to complain about shaky cameras/lack of focus but yeesh! - edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22BarriedaleNick needs a good hit upside the head with a clue-by-4.
- jpric18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16i love how it cracks the password, one character at a time.
****
f***
fa**
fak*
fake - chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19you would have to be a total idiot to believe that was real.
- tzmguitarist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Programs compiled from C can run on the TI-84 and the TI-84Plus has a larger screen area.
- tical2756, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11This is totally possible, I used to bullseye womp rats with my T-16 back home.
- wwco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Aside from him not specifying which account to get the password from, and aside from the underpowered calculator, if it could do it, then you could hook up any machine with beefy horsepower. Total fake.
- Suspected, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10you so smart!
- BarriedaleNick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I think you answered your own question!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It would take too damn long for a little calculator to hack the SAM database, and all you'd get is some gay ass encrypted string. Not something you can decrypt Hollywood style, 1 character at a time. Completely false, brute force attack would have taken years on a damn calculator.
- kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Did you notice how in the end of the video it says you can buy the program for $49.99 (it's shown on the screen of the calculator at the very end).
This video is just scam and he hopes he can get money from suckers who would buy his software. - EvoMR05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8It is fake for the following obvious reason:
These were many accounts listed. Without telling his/her TI whatever, the calculator telepathically knows that he was looking for "Sam the best" account's password. Incorrect.
There..so it's fake. - kg4gyt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10If you name your program with .exe on the end of it then that is the name of the program. The calculator sees it as just part of the file.
The whole concept of breaking the SAM file with a TI seems a little far fetched though. - sedawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"PRESS ENTER TO BEGIN HACKING PROCESS"
-- LOL -- Is this the same guy who makes the crappy computer interface graphics for movies?
Also -- the video shows about 90 secs of hooking up the Calculator to the computer via USB -- obviously a big feat for this "hacker" :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I like how they are selling this fake crap for $50
- evilspoons, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Jebus man, I could smell the sarcasm from across the room.
- itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7And the music sounds like ants eating my brain. Pretty much a highly "Marked as lame" video.
- zeno60, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Why would someone want to fake this?
I love some of the "imma l33t 12 yr old hacker" responses on the youtube comments though. - boran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I dont get the youtubue guys. When a vid shows up that has a high probability of being real everyone and his mom is screaming "fake", "fake", "fake". And now something really fake like this shows up and they all jump on it like rabid dogs. I guess we know who's buying all that v1@gra stuff and invests into perpetual energy machines.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Actually that's not entirely true, oxid.it has a program called "Cain" that when paired with the Windows service "Abel" will allow you to retrieve the hashes from the SAM while the machine you are hacking is online, and then run a brute force/dictionary/rainbow attack
- uslacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Digg apparently needs a new category: "Lame, but anti-MS so I'll Digg it anyways"
\USlacker - aldenhg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Perhaps that means that poor grammar isn't the deciding factor in whether or not a post is dugg or burried.
- KWhat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5This is not possible unless its a brute force attack. MS Sam file uses a one way hash so you could either rewrite the hash to a password you currently know, or you could brute force it. If you use a good password (over 8 chars, numbers, letters, upper/lower and specials) this, if it does work would, would take you about 10,000 years.
For more information please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Account_Manager - jimmiem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I can't believe how many people are commenting on the validity of the method when the story here is how incredibly bad that video was. Even if I was willing to forgive the music (which I'm not) I can not forgive the awful, awful production quality. Why not show show a God damned video of the hack in action? Instead they try to build suspense and anxiety around the idea of hacking a password. Was it necessary for them to take 30 seconds to decide which user account to hack? Was it necessary for them to take another 30 seconds to find the 'on' button on the calculator? Lame does not begin to describe this video.
- apache2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4yeah, patheticaly fake. I only watched until the .exe part. not only is it so incredibly fake, but the video style made me puke, this is the worst ***** I've ever seen. I don't want to look at your damn calculator for 2 minutes as you try to make your video dramatic! what a PoS
why do people keep submitting this utter crap to digg? digg has not been very good recently - tmanka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Marked inaccurate.
- kdubbz6688, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3fake fake fake
- halik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3so fake it's not even funny... even brute forcing something like md5 would take years on a 8mhz cpu.
- hexydes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Awesome video. This is the most realistic hacking video since the movie "Hackers". The only improvement would have been 3D, flying, virtual reality environments to represent the password being cracked.
Seriously though, there are so many flaws here (all of them stated previously). No account was selected, the filename convention on the calculator is all wrong, .exe extensions aren't used by TI calculators, it is unlikely that a program written in TI-BASIC could accomplish this (and if it was written in C/ASM then the on-screen text would likely appear differently)....I could go on and on.
I'll give a "C" for the idea, but an "F" for the execution (extra points off for the rave-inspired, seizure-inducing soundtrack). - Dakk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Trying to figure out how it would work, if it does, lead me to these questions:
Can the TI-84P act as a flash drive?
Is the computer configured to Autorun newly installed media?
There was a logged in user, would the Autorun feature run on that specific account?
Could an automatically started program (via Autorun) copy the password file to the TI-84P?
How long would it take for the TI-84P to hash the password file and display it? - aclements, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Can't decide to bury it as lame or inacurate. Now, if there was a F*cking lame option, I know what I would pick.
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not sure why my previous comment was dug down but let me inform (as I did earlier).
The TI-84 has a very small amount of RAM. I don't recall but it's in the the 24-32k neighborhood. Too small to hold the SAM database.
As for cracking the pw, you don't need to. Just unmount the SAM database and re-write the password for the account you want to use. - alienvenom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3marked as inaccurate. the video is fake.
- yonis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The calculator magically knew which user to crack?
Fake. :-) - TheTrueAPlus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Fake. TI calculators are not as powerful as the video made it out to be. .exe is the extension for MS-DOS/Windows programs - not TI calculators. "Done." even indicates that the program terminated! Anyways, there would have to be a specialized Windows driver for the calculator since USB can't easily sniff out data without proper communication protocols to be followed.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4lmfao people think its real?
now thats amusing
my gripes
1. calculators dont run .exe files
2. half the video was the guy trying to plug the usb in
3. the calculator instantly knew what account to open
4. when it was doing the actual hack they didnt show the display of the calculator it was a different display
5. since when can a calculator brute force something faster than a good pc? - 0KonTroL0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree. It only pulled one hash and cracked it when there are multiple accounts on the machine. Geez....
- hexydes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's true. They generally don't use passwords longer than 6 characters.
- yonis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Weird. Digg wouldn't let me edit my comment.
I wanted to add that I don't think there's a way for that information to be accessed through COM or other means without some obvious configuration change (if that), and I didn't see a username specified on the calculator's screen.
Plus it's braindead simple to write up fake prompts and text printing for a calculator anyway. :-P - HaloprO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wouldn't you think windows xp would deny access to the hard drive from a usb source?
But then again, they're microsoft, so maybe not. Not to mention XP is 5 years old, hehe :) - grinin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I coulda said it was fake the second I heard the music. Aside from that why would anyone take the time to write a program for a frickin graphing calculator to "hack" your Windows XP password when you can just use a linux recovery boot cd and replace the SAM and blank out your passwordS?!
- thespiff, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I love that when someone says something stupid with poor grammar and someone else corrects it, the initial poster gets dugg down and the criticizer dugg up.
Yet, when someone says something insightful with poor grammar and is criticized, the initial poster gets dugg up and the criticizer dugg down. -
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