To the few hackers, crackers or whatever pc experts here... Once you managed to get "inside the system/problem" you say to yourself or to someone there with you "I'm in"?

Bonus question... Have you ever said "yeah, that fits" once you got a password?

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Nemo@slrpnk.net · 38 pts · 1y

No, but I have leaned back in my char and cracked my knuckles.

punkwalrus@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y

Yes. Most of them were east-to-find solutions on the web, or someone else giving me access. "Can you reset my password on Blah?" "Try TempP@ass123." "I'm in, changed password. Thanks."

A few times when I am really acting like a Senior Linux Administrator is figuring out a kludge or back door nobody had thought of. Recently, a client told me that the former admin had left and didn't leave the password to over 300 systems (it turns out he did, the client was clueless, but I didn't know that in the moment). I found every system the admin had access to, and looked for a dev box where he had access but I could take down during production hours. I took it down, booted into init with /bin/bash, changed root password, brought it back up. Then I checked his home directory to see what public keys he had. Based on that, I checked to see if there were any private keys on the bastion systems that matched as a pair (using ssh-keygen -l -f on each pair to see if the signatures matched). They checked which pair had no password. That was pretty quick because I quickly discovered a majority of these cloud systems also had an ec2-user that could escalate to root via private/public key pairs (it is supposed to be removed for security reasons, but wasn't). Within a few hours, I had full access back to all their systems. Without taking down production.

Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y

Of all the fake things you see on tv about hackers, that part is real.

bear@lemmynsfw.com · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

This was the perfect balance of sardonic response and 90s/early 2000s

ATDA@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y

Even if you don't say it, oh you'll feel it. Even if you're just dicking around on your own network and exploit something from a guide as practice....

Yeah, I'm in.

zeroday@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 1y

I've said both. I'm a professional pentester / red teamer, and yeah, we send each other "I'm in" memes when we pop a box.

mp3@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y

During the CrowdStrike clusterfuck? Damn straight we did.

DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

"I'm in the mainframe"

Sickday@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 1y

I say it every time I have to hop onto a production box at work. If I'm in a call while it's happening I usually drop a one-liner. Gotta have fun with these things.

seven_phone@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I believe that might be slightly relegated in favour of the more colourful 'show time'.

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

adhocfungus@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y

What a nostalgia hit. Loved that show.

fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

I always say "I'm in" when remote connecting or remembering a stupid password or whatever but none of my coworkers get it because they're not anglophones.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y

Yes. All the time

PetteriPano@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I open a can of jolt cola every time I get in. That's why I'm so fat.

LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I usually say, "Nice try, FBI."

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

No. But I once mumbled "What, they left it open?"

Also, I lol'd a bit when I ran John on a password file I lifted from a school server. Turned out this girl I know had her password set to "Urine". And, no, I neither cared nor used it. I just found that nugget a bit funny.

I do, however, frequently declare "I'm in" when logging in to work while I have someone on the phone - The remote systems are on extremely lagging and unreliable VSAT, so even though I'm supposed to remote in relatively often, it's not a given that a simple SSH connection will work.

adhocfungus@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y

I do this with my own stuff. I dug out a few hard drives that were gibberish because they were in a RAID array at one point. I put them all in a Linux machine and eventually found the right command to make them work. I definitely muttered, "I'm in..."

jlh@lemmy.jlh.name · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

"Alright, I'm in now."

Valmond@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

"are you sure?"

That's what she said.

satans_methpipe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I usually say: "ARE YOU A FUCKING FED. TELL ME NOW"

meekah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Just pay your taxes already

qaz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I usually just mutter "finally", possibly prefixed with an explative.

Crashumbc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Hack the Planet!