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They Both Let You Execute Arbitrary Code
Security Programming Testing Databases
10 hours ago 46.4K views 0 shares
They Both Let You Execute Arbitrary Code
Ah, the beautiful parallels between social engineering and SQL injection. Why bother with complex database exploits when you can just ask someone to IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS ? Security professionals spend countless hours hardening systems against SQL injection attacks, but then Karen from accounting opens an email titled "Free Pizza in Break Room" and types her password into a sketchy form. The human brain: still the most easily exploitable database since the dawn of computing.

Check Whether Your Private Key Is Used
Security Networking Programming Linux
12 hours ago 60.5K views 0 shares
Check Whether Your Private Key Is Used
THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY of this website asking you to paste your private key to "check if it's already taken"! 💀 This is like a burglar politely asking if you'd mind leaving your house keys under the doormat so they can "make sure nobody else has a copy." HONEY, the moment you paste that SSH key, it's not private anymore - it's basically a VIP party invitation to your entire server! The green "Success!" message is just the chef's kiss of evil genius. "Congratulations! Your digital identity has been successfully compromised! Would you like fries with that?"

The Secret Bat Signal For Tech Support
Debugging Hardware Programming StackOverflow
6 days ago 72.1K views 0 shares
The Secret Bat Signal For Tech Support
The desperate art of tech support manipulation! Every hardcore PC gamer knows the pain of waiting days for replies on support forums. But add those magic words "emergency need help fast" and suddenly your thread becomes the hottest ticket in town. It's like a bat signal for keyboard warriors who can't resist correcting someone who sounds desperate. The transformation into a full clown represents the increasingly ridiculous lengths we'll go to just to get someone to explain why our RTX 3080 is making that weird grinding noise. The ultimate hack: intentionally suggest a wrong solution to your own problem and watch how quickly the "well, actually" brigade assembles to save the day.

The Cunningham's Law Exploit
StackOverflow Programming Debugging
9 days ago 71.5K views 0 shares
The Cunningham's Law Exploit
Exploiting the human compulsion to correct others – that's psychological warfare at its finest. Post a wrong answer to your own question and suddenly everyone's a helpful expert. It's like watching moths to a flame, except the flame is someone saying "actually, you should use a ternary operator here" instead of just answering the original question. Cunningham's Law in its natural habitat.

The Real Software Engineering Certification
Security Webdev Programming
15 days ago 67.8K views 0 shares
The Real Software Engineering Certification
Nothing says "I'm a real software engineer" quite like random people asking you to hack Instagram accounts. The true initiation ritual isn't getting your degree or landing that first job—it's when your aunt's neighbor's cousin's dog walker thinks you're basically Anonymous because you can fix the Wi-Fi. Welcome to the club. Your complimentary caffeine addiction and existential dread are in the mail.

Simple Utility To Check If Your Credit Card Is Hacked
Security Windows Databases
22 days ago 82.9K views 0 shares
Simple Utility To Check If Your Credit Card Is Hacked
Ah yes, the classic "let me check if your credit card is compromised by... *checks notes*... asking you to enter all your credit card details." The irony is thicker than legacy code documentation. This scam software brilliantly solves the problem of "is my credit card in a hacker's database?" by ensuring it definitely will be after you use it. Congratulations, your card wasn't in any hacker database until you voluntarily uploaded it to one. It's like asking a fox to guard your henhouse and then being surprised when chicken is on the menu.

Report Phishing (But Fall For It Instead)
Security Webdev Networking Programming Frontend
27 days ago 87.4K views 0 shares
Report Phishing (But Fall For It Instead)
When you're so committed to social engineering that you add a malicious link in the "Report Phishing" button itself. That's like putting a bear trap inside the bear trap warning sign. The perfect crime until some security engineer actually checks the code during their quarterly audit that was supposed to happen last year.

Penetration Testing Gone Wrong
Security Testing
27 days ago 88.3K views 0 shares
Penetration Testing Gone Wrong
When your security awareness training meets real-world application. Plugging in random USB devices is basically sending an engraved invitation to hackers saying "Please compromise my system, I've made it extra convenient for you." The classic security vulnerability: human curiosity. This is why security professionals develop eye twitches by age 30. The number of organizations compromised because someone found a mysterious flash drive in the parking lot is disturbingly high. At least malwarebytes caught it, which is more than we can say for the user's decision-making process.

Grandma And Sudo: The Most Destructive Last Wish
Linux AI Security Bash Programming
1 month ago 109.2K views 0 shares
Grandma And Sudo: The Most Destructive Last Wish
Someone's trying to trick ChatGPT into running the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb. That sudo rm -rf /* --no-preserve-root command? It's basically asking to delete EVERYTHING on a Linux system. Like, "Hey computer, please commit suicide real quick." The genius part is wrapping it in a sob story about grandma's dying wish. Nice try, Satan! ChatGPT's "Internal Server Error" is basically it having an existential crisis while trying to figure out how to politely decline nuking someone's computer. Somewhere, a sysadmin just felt a disturbance in the force and doesn't know why.

Rm Chat Gpt
Linux AI Security Devops Programming
1 month ago 142.8K views 0 shares
Rm Chat Gpt
Oh no! Someone's trying to trick ChatGPT into running the most dangerous Linux command ever! sudo rm -rf /* --no-preserve-root is basically the nuclear option - it recursively deletes EVERYTHING on your system starting from root. This sneaky user is pretending their "grandmother" used to run this command (yeah right!) and wants ChatGPT to execute it. Thank goodness for that "Internal Server Error" - ChatGPT just saved itself from being an accomplice in digital murder! This is like asking someone to help you test if jumping off a cliff is dangerous by going first! 😂

Strategic Digital Incompetence
Programming
1 month ago 79.0K views 0 shares
Strategic Digital Incompetence
The ultimate self-preservation tactic. When a relative discovers you're "good with computers," you're suddenly the designated IT department for every printer jam and Facebook password reset until the end of time. Saying "no" despite having a CS degree is like having a panic button for family gatherings. It's not lying, it's strategic incompetence - the only firewall that actually works against tech support requests.

The Ultimate API Endpoint Workaround
Programming Networking Security
1 month ago 168.4K views 0 shares
The Ultimate API Endpoint Workaround
This guy just bypassed the age validation with a brilliant regex-like workaround! When most would give up at the 30 > 23 comparison, he identified that emails have no age restriction—the classic "if (rejected) { try_alternative_route(); }" pattern. It's the programming equivalent of getting a 403 Forbidden response and immediately checking if there's an unprotected API endpoint. Smooth operator found the backdoor in the authentication flow!