{"id":591,"date":"2015-12-17T17:38:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2015-12-17T17:38:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:38:36","slug":"want-to-hack-a-linux-computer-just-hit-backspace-28-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Want to hack a Linux computer? Just hit backspace 28 times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nContrary to what you might have experienced as Aiden Pierce in\u00a0 Watch Dogs, hacking isn\u2019t easy. In fact, trying to log in to someone else\u2019s computer to compromise their files is practically impossible without the right set of tools. Fortunately (or perhaps\u00a0 unfortunately, depending on who you\u2019re asking) security researchers have discovered a bug in several Linux distributions that makes taking over an entire system as easy as striking the backspace key 28 times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Contrary to what you might have experienced as Aiden Pierce in\u00a0 Watch Dogs, hacking isn\u2019t easy. In fact, trying to log in to someone else\u2019s computer to compromise their files is practically impossible without the right set of tools. Fortunately (or perhaps\u00a0 unfortunately, depending on who you\u2019re asking) security researchers…<\/p>\n

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