I constantly get requests to crack someones Facebook account or even ddos Facebook, which is bullshit.
How can I explain that facebook is non hackable due to their massive amount of servers when notech people don't understand what that means?
Same crap with vk.com.
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Facebook is hackable.
nothing is impossible
I constantly get requests to crack someones Facebook account or even ddos Facebook, which is bullshit.
Instead of explaining that it's "not possible" (it is), why not explain that breaking into things that you don't own is unethical (or, as you put it, "bullshit")?
You can bypass facebook, but good luck ddos'ing an amount of servers that could also count as a great botnet.
The thing is, that I do not do blackhat stuff, only whitehat.
Means I also won't use phishing/other attacks against facebook users for "fun" or to prove that I can go to jail in less than a week...
Well you did explain that pretty well here, as to the request about hacking fb and such, you'll always get those, just ignore them, or explain what whitehat means, might work to reduce a number of request :)
You won't, and you cant are very different things.
Yeah, I mean the Ddosing part I imagine would be quite hard especially if you were trying to do the entirety of Faceboob but if you're just trying to get someones password then that isn't hard at all.
I cannot imagine anything else but writing a script to find out the email addresses of some users.
Then sending them malicious email.
But this is very inefficient, might also be very stupid, as your Ip gets throttled by facebook if you access too many sites at once.
Taking down Facebook via DDOS is nearly impossible. You'd have to have insanely massive resources to take down a site like Facebook. This YouTube video below demonstrates a DDOS attack by China on Facebook that happened recently. It only disrupted Facebook for a mere 30 minutes. Also, each of those individual lines is a full-fledged attack.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4qDToy7jDI
Facebook has a team of experts monitoring its infrastructure 24/7.
But what will happen once there are quantum computers? I know we have quantum computers already but I'm talking about when average level desktops have quantum computing abilities. It will definitely not happen any time soon, but I was just wondering.
quantum computers are only good for certain calculation so the average computer in the future would have a quantum co processor. also the fact that the processor is quantum and works on superposition does not have any effect on the software's security
facebook passwords can be retrieved illegally. face book can be ddos but is nearly impossible. as for what to tell people say "I can't do that, that not how it works".
That's bullshit.
Quantum computers work in a different way then conventional ones we have.
Also you will only be able to kill your provider, ddos won't be better unless you exploit a dns.
HAHAHAHAH I only just noticed now that I wrote faceboob.
The most powerful quantum computers will belong to people with enough money to afford them. Possibly facebook. It's uphill battle.
In my country you can get 1 to 5 years of jail for this, so i just say to them that it's doable but it will get us 1 to 5 years of jail. You could try and do this, most of the people won't bother asking details.
Edit: Facebook also doesn't store your password, basically Facebook doesn't know your password. Al they know is the password hash which is generated by an algorithm and it's unique for that string. It's easy to generate an hash from an string but it's really difficult to do it backwards, to get the string from it's hash. It's like asking what are the two prime numbers that generate the number 667. It's easy to do the multiplication if you know the numbers but harder to find which one of them are. (it's 23*29 just in case you were wondering)
You can do it the hard way 1st or the second way or both.
Anyways hacking Facebook won't get you the password to an account, you may get the hash but it's useless for you because you need large ammounts of computing power to reverse it.
Depends on how long the hash is, most are fairly simple and would only take a week or two.
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still stands that its a dumb idea to do it however the best way to do it imo would be to send the person some kind of logger via email.
I don*t think, that big sites will use quantum computational devices for delivering their services. The only thing they might be used for is analysis and maybe some "background calkulation" the "serving" will most likely be done by a high core count CPU that will work with mashine-code since they will be cheaper for a looong time-spand. I think, that " normal " CPUs will stay workers for a long time, the new quantum stuff will be used for "artistic" things. Just like in a human brain with one mathematical/mechanical side and an artistic side for.
You are likely correct to some extent about big companies not using these types of computers, Quantum Computer, for the most basic of services. However, what they will use them for is security. Quantum bits have a property of degeneracy of once you look at one you change it forever. If you send information via quantum bits a person can't spy on you without changing the information fundamentally. There would be no more need for giant products of prime numbers for security.
Also I want to break your analogy of the human brain there is no preference of one side to another, ie right vs left. Though it is compartmentalized with centers for certain things. There is, however, not necessarily some pseudo war of different brain hemispheres.
Further a strong area for quantum computers would in fact be mathematics. If each qbit has two states one can have 2^n-qbits worth of states. As an example there are 10^80 particles in the known universe one can represent all these particle in a very little amount of qbits. To solve for n we take the log base 2 of the number of particles and get n-qbit = 80 * log_2(10) = 265.75 qbits. With a mechanical computer say wtih your CPU of 2 billion transistors each transistor taking one state or each particle; that only accounts for 2 * 10^-69 % of all the particles. Morale of the story is that quantum computers are beasts for mathematics.