Just how secure is aim?

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August 3, 2003 at 11:40 pm #6337

ShadowSlayer469
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I have posted this topic today for people do discuss, Just how secure is Aim? I have always thought it was lacking in that area. So please feel free to express your opinion.

August 3, 2003 at 11:42 pm #57980

Someguy03
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Well it certainly isnt safe enough because aim added encryption. In my opinion it is safe for young users like ourselves but corporations might have some danger but shouldnt worry to much about hackers on aim.

August 3, 2003 at 11:55 pm #57983

ShadowSlayer469
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I would disagree, although I am under the age of 18, and I would rather not say how old I am, I actually tryed my hand at hacking aim(although it was a stupid decision) and succeded. I was able to listen to some of my friends conversations, and I got theyre passwords. I would not say it is not a problem. Don’t worry, I have stopped doing stupid things like hacking.:cool:

August 4, 2003 at 12:44 am #57985

Dragoon
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quote:Originally posted by ShadowSlayer469

I would disagree, although I am under the age of 18, and I would rather not say how old I am, I actually tryed my hand at hacking aim(although it was a stupid decision) and succeded. I was able to listen to some of my friends conversations, and I got theyre passwords. I would not say it is not a problem. Don’t worry, I have stopped doing stupid things like hacking.:cool:

well, hacking is a term that is used loosely, how did you actually “hack” into AIM. did you hack into there servers and recover you friends passwords somehow? or did you execute a keylogger on there computer and get there passes lol or did you make a sn like AIMmanager and just ask for there passes? im curious….:)

August 4, 2003 at 12:58 am #57982

ShadowSlayer469
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Well if you must know, I used a keylogger for the passwords.

August 4, 2003 at 12:59 am #57981

ShadowSlayer469
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Lets just continue with another opinion shall we?

August 4, 2003 at 1:12 am #57979

Someguy03
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you used a keylogger? That means you were at there house. If you were thats not hacking at all, its spying.

August 4, 2003 at 1:23 am #57984

ShadowSlayer469
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Well… *sigh* I ping flooded them and then acessed they’re computer and downloaded the keylogger, but I’m not saying how, remember people BBB does not support hacking. So can we please get back to the topic?!

January 17, 2004 at 7:22 am #57986

QuiescentWonder
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well there is an exploit for IE which allows you to run HTA aplications without asking the user first, and you can run them completely in the background. because HTA applications have no restrictions you can simply write some VBS to use the WSH to read the encrypted password that’s saved to the registry and log it to a remote website. the passwords in 5.x are MD5 i think, i know they are non-reversable, but still all you have to do is save them to your registry under the screen name and you can sign on their name.
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