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- aitzim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Immediately reminded me of http://www.bash.org/?244321
- thewise1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Hilarious, but not true, since it wouldn't have deleted files that were in use. :D
- secretdiffusion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10F***ing hilaroius. Yeah, everyone should try to hack 127.0.0.1! Digg++
- thewise1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"It is totally possible. All system files would have been on C: (typically) the last drive he said he had started to delete, seconds before he lost his connection."
no, the losing his connection thing implies that he deleted his irc program which would not be possible while the files were in use.
I'm telling you, it's fake. Funny for sure! Nonetheless, it's fake. - giggins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6There's no place like 127.0.0.1
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Um, All My Base Are Belong To Me??
- tekmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I remember this story... back when BB's were all the rage. ;-)
- macboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Funny as hell, but really, really old.
- R4wBon3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3OH NO! Not the loopback chatlog thing again... This is on the order of IRC urban legend material.
When I click 'Digg This' the thread will be deleted from all of your computerz forever.
(R4wBon3 quits 127.0.0.1 - Digg timeout) 01:23:45 - Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You don't expect to accrue new users?
- Necros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Old news, yeah.
- aitzim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3but but he's an elite h4x0r, maybe he has some super duper program that bypases window's file locks
- jmthornsburg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This has probably been submitted to digg countless times.
And it's not nearly the first time it made it to the front page.
But I guess you have to consider the kids to joined yesturday. *sigh* Noobies. - ProphetSix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3God this is old. How'd it make it to the front page? Man we need a -digg button BADLY.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22838
Not to mention this is more of an "urban myth" than a hard-core news story, with FACTS even. - bsoric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2cyanidenfs, I believe you missed the point.
- jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think someone is lying about this one. I remember something like this on bash, but with perfect english, even the firewall part. Sounds like somebody translated that into German, and some translated that back into English.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2put a smile on my face and a tear in my eye. :)
- svidrod, on 10/12/2007, -10/+11old, period.
- thewise1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2god, bash is hilarious, I can read those things all day
- ZekeSulastin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4This is old as dirt, and similar attcks are the subject of MANY posts on Bash.org - but I'll dig anyways because it is awesomely funny :)
- QuantaS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2+ Digg... funniest thing all day
- R4wBon3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1eq linguistics?
- Starskey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Old...funny as hell, but extremly old. I think this was up on Digg the first couple of months it came out.
- cheesy_1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've seen this before but I'd have to agree it's probably fake, it just seems fake.
- utdiscant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1he does a damn good job at it then ;)
- lmbrjck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, anyone who has ever been on IRC has seen this...
- CaptainSanchez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh. I gotta chuckle on this one. The worst part is in the comments when people are correcting him, it's all..."so the hacker typed in the local routers ip...yadda yadda yadda"....lolls. ~loopback address does not equal router address. nerf.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, thats just adding digg.com to your hosts file...
no digg for you ;) - JohnP, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2[edit]Ok that came out stupid and im too tired to write it properly. Basically his IRC client would have crapped out if he was deleting everything he could on C:[edit]
- silverfire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Even if the story were true, this guy isn't a hacker at all. He's just a skript kiddie with less brainpower than your garden-variety skript kiddie.
Real hackers actually do their own work instead of downloading programs and plugging IP addresses in.
No digg. - careless223, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That is like script kiddie gone wrong.
I wouldn't be suprised if he was a 12 year old in his basement trying to be l33t.
They should have asked him what exploits he was using and what payloads he had loaded onto it. - ani-pockdotnet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1
Related: "42 Quality (Funny) Bash.org/IRC Quotes"
http://digg.com/links/42_Quality_(Funny)_Bash.org_IRC_Quotes
Unfortunately too long to add. - hockeygoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Maybe thread title should be 12 year old tries to get traffic to his internet forum.
- miket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0to everyone who thinks your irc client would crap out, it wouldnt, not untill it made a call to a file somewhere.
mIRC resides mostly in memory, and calls libraries as needed.....i know from experience ;) - battlenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's olded , and was named
"I hacked 127.0.0.1" hehe
He's full of hacktools but has no arts of hacking - ctoph0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1hahah thats so funny, its like lighting a fuse to your own bomb
- bombcar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Try pinging 127.12.34.44
Try it! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1its really old...
but +digg since many people here dont know about it...
suck foolish people should be made famous :P - lagnut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1To all who dugg this - Welcome to the internet!
- guitarist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Oh, and George Burns died!
Seriously, is there anyone who didn't see this last year? - eatporktoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1THAT IS HISTERICAL!!!!! OMFG!
- aresef, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Ah, oldie but a goodie. I pulled straight C's and D's in Networking at my school, but even I am not dumb enough to try to hack 127.0.0.1.
- cfazzini, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6Only about a million internet years old.
- NospmisRemoh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Feh! That is nothing. For all of you who thought that was cool, here is a little trick you can use from Windows XP to knock digg.com off the internet! Just three easy steps:
1) CLOSE YOUR BROWSER - You don't want to have it connected to digg.com or any other sites when you do this, that could corrupt your browser settings.
2) Open a command window (Start->Run type cmd and click ok).
3) At the prompt type the following command: echo 127.0.0.1 digg.com >> c:WINDOWsystem32driversetchosts
And that is it, go ahead open your browser and try to get back to digg.com. Page not found? congrats, u r 1337. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11/|/|4 H4X012
- xerox, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1OLLLLLLD
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