How are hackers able to find such complicated exploits?
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I’ve worked in IT for almost a decade.
I started learning about computers by breaking, them, taking them apart and eventually hacking them. A computer is a complicated device. Someone figured out how to take a bunch of electrons and convert that into binary which converts into code which runs programs to do complicated things.
By tinkering around with the software and hardware, I learned how to make the computer do or say something via a pop-up to another computer. Eventually I learned about how a computer was connected to other computers and how I can access those through my computer. Eventually you want to find what someone is hiding on a computer even though they don’t want you to see it because its password encrypted.
That’s all that hacking is. Rebellious curiosity.
The kinds of exploit you are talking about are only complicated because you don’t know or understand how computers work but once you get a general idea, you start to see the faults and learn to focus on those.
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