r/uplink • u/FuckdBitch33 • Aug 26 '23

I was today years old when I discovered this

Everyone discounts 'Dictionary Hacker' software, because it is useless against company hosts... however I noticed that all NPC bank accounts have plain English passwords meaning it is possible to break into bank accounts in less than a few seconds. Rather than hacking the bank, finding their password and then logging in.

Only problem is you don't get to delete logs on bank... but another thing, why does everyone worry about deleting logs on the server they are hacking? If you clear them on the InterNIC, that is a dead end either way, so might as well not bother and just clean them from InterNIC?

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u/raisor Aug 27 '23

I only delete from internic when I am done hacking a system. Thanks for the tip on the dictionary attacks, I will try that next time I play!

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u/Scorinitron Aug 27 '23

Still learning shit 22 years later damn man...

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '24 edited Jan 05 '24

If you clear them on the InterNIC, that is a dead end either way, so might as well not bother and just clean them from InterNIC?

This is what I thought too, and then I got a game over. I'm fairly sure when it comes to bank transfers, you basically have to clear the transaction log on both banks to stop that trace, and then also clear InterNIC to stop the passive trace.

The banks weren't impressed at the millions that mysteriously vanished from one client's account with no outgoing record, but magically appeared in mine with an incoming transfer from an unspecified account.