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How to Hack (in 3 simple steps)

This detail oriented, standards compliant, three step guide is guaranteed to teach you how to hack anything, anytime, anywhere. Let’s begin.

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How to Hack Games Yourself

When cheat codes aren’t enough to get you what you want, you have to hack the damn game. There are many ways to do so, the most commonly used method is probably through the use of “trainers.” This article will give you an introduction to memory hacking, the foundation of trainers. In 5 minutes, you’ll have hacked your first game!

For the uninitiated, trainers run along side the target game and come with various cheat options that may or may not be available via cheat codes. Trainers usually only work with one specific version of a game, often break the game, may not offer what you want, may not be available, and are written by people you wouldn’t normally trust (like yourself).

Trainers usually work by modifying values in memory (RAM), or locking values so they can’t be updated. For example, they might change your ammo count to 999 or lock your health to 100%. However, these are two tasks you can usually perform yourself, with the assistance of a simple tool such as Poke. Poke couldn’t be any easier to use, but lets dig into an example to show what it’s capable of, and get your creative juices flowing.

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Epic Multimonitor Setups

If the movies Swordfish and the Matrix taught us anything, its that you need more than one monitor to write software. Two is not enough either. You need at least three, or four, or seven, or maybe twenty.

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The Best PHP Framework for Web Applications

There’s definitely a lot of talk about which PHP Framework is best - and there’s plenty to choose from. If you’re developing a web application, it’s critical that you use a framework. You might create your own and do it your own way, and that’s fine (especially if you’re just learning). For most applications however, I highly recommend you take a look at one of the following two systems, because you’d just be reinventing the wheel otherwise.

For those that don’t know, a framework is a re-usable architecture for a software system. Typically, a framework will force developers to use a well-known design pattern, such as Model-View-Controller (MVC), and provide libraries and API’s for things like database abstraction to make your code portable, reusable, easy to read, and easy to maintain. MVC allows you to separate your data structures (the models) from your user interface (the views), and keep all that separate from your functionality and logic (the controllers). The framework provides an underlining layer to connect your models, views, and controllers together, and do a lot (if not all) of the dirty work for you.

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The Best Text & Code Editors for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

There are hundreds of text editors on the market today, and honestly most of them are absolute trash. I know this, because I’m quite confident I’ve tried all of them; I’ve spent 6 years and hundreds of hours installing and puking on crappy text editors on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

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Step One: Launch Wireless Keylogger

Software keyloggers are ridiculously common, hardware keyloggers are easily obtained, and now we have a wireless keylogger. Joy!

100% of the eleven PS/2, USB, and laptop keyboards tested were discovered to be vulnerable. The implication is that all keyboards, including your desktop, laptop, the ATM machine you use, and the keyboard your bank teller is using, could all be equally vulnerable.

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Net’s most popular cybercrime forum was an FBI sting

DarkMarket.ws, “an online watering hole for thousands of identify thieves, hackers and credit card swindlers,” was voluntarily shutdown on October 4th, 2008. Documents discovered and released by a German radio network have confirmed that an FBI agent identified as “J. Keith Mularski” or “Master Splynter” was responsible for running the site since November 2006.

DarkMarket allowed users to trade stolen identities, passwords, credit card data, and specialized hardware in an “entrepreneurial, peer-reviewed environment.”

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Two (Official) Dark Themes for Windows XP

Back during the development of Windows Media Center, Microsoft was hard at work developing a slick, nearly black theme for Windows XP. Progress was eventually halted for an unknown reason, and the theme was archived on internal Microsoft servers.

This theme eventually leaked, and was subsequently dubbed Royale Noir, due to its contrasting relationship to the publicly released Royale Theme. Eventually, Microsoft decided to give it a rebirth, and officially published the Zune Theme.

In the below image, Royale Noir is on the left, and the newer Zune Theme is on the right.

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GPU Power Brute Forces WiFi Encryption, WPA/WPA2

AMD and Nvidia have been preaching for the past few years that the processing power available in GPU architecture far surpasses the performance of a comparable traditional CPU in certain applications. Besides the inclusion of the Physx engine in Nvidia cards recently, there haven’t been many practical applications known that advantage of the lofty claims of GPU prowness.

That changed recently when a (apprently badass) Russian security firm utilized Nvidia GPU’s to accellerate the processing time required to break WiFi’s WPA and WPA2 encryption systems.

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How to Hack Your Nerf Gun for Long Range

You probably already have an array of Nerf weapons stashed at your desk to defend against periodic assaults from your coworkers. Now, you can extend the range of your darts and go on offense yourself. Imagine nailing your helpless coworkers from outside their effective range, immune to their defenses!

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