Phishing is not Hacking!

Just after the chat with the hacker wannabe, I googled and found many articles in Indian “tech” sites about “Hacking”. These guys think that phishing is a sophisticated way of Hacking!

First of all, hacking is not a term for finding someone’s password or cracking into someone’s computer/website. Secondly, phishing is just a social engineering technique. You don’t need to have any technical knowledge to do it.

See the following chat from IRC Quote Database:

<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars

<Cthon98> ********* see!

<AzureDiamond> hunter2

<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me

<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> *******

<Cthon98> thats what I see

<AzureDiamond> oh, really?

<Cthon98> Absolutely

<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2

<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?

<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******

<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that

<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******

<AzureDiamond> awesome!

<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?

<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******’s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw

<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.

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