> One of my favorite low key social engineering hacks is that I used to have a keylogger installed on every machine I own. Whenever a friend needs to hop on my machine to show me something, they'd log into an account they own and I would have their password.
Is that legal? Seems like a good way to get sued/arrested if you annoy the wrong person, or your 'friends' ever report you for it.
But seriously, that's pretty messed up either way really. You're exploiting people that think you're friends with them to get information from their computers without their knowledge. It's at best not ethical and worst not legal.
He was talking about high school shenanigans. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kids play pranks on each other. Thats not going to be the end of the world, and nobody is going to be sent to jail.
He also explicitly said that everyone was doing it to everyone else, so obviously this isn't some cyber bullying scenario where someone is getting seriously hurt.
I remember people doing lots of dumb pranks like this in high school, and nobody ever got emotionally scared because someone "hacked" their facebook page (because it was left open as someone went to the bathroom) and changed their "interested in" profile section to "men".
Jeez let's call the FBI because of these high school friends playing pranks on each other. Maybe we can get one a criminal record or a large fine. That'll really solve this "problem" and teach those kids "lessons". I can't believe that on hacker news of all places people are talking about the legality of kids in high school playing pranks on each other with computers. You guys sound just like the government.
Is that legal? Seems like a good way to get sued/arrested if you annoy the wrong person, or your 'friends' ever report you for it.
But seriously, that's pretty messed up either way really. You're exploiting people that think you're friends with them to get information from their computers without their knowledge. It's at best not ethical and worst not legal.