No honour among thieves

from here and here

Of all the databases to leak on your hacking forum, one that exposes you and/or your own forum's users seems like one that would be considered off limits, but apparently the ExposeForums admin who leaked the RaidForums user database didn't feel the same way. If they wanted to just notify the members that their data had been breached there were other, more privacy-preserving ways they could have done it than to post the database where all could see it and misuse it.

The street finds its own uses for things

from here (image source)

"The street finds its own uses for things" describes a situation where things are used in unanticipated ways, which is one of the core aspects of hacking. Hacking isn't confined to computers, of course, there are life hacks and car hacks and food hacks and hacks for everything in between (even shopping carts apparently). While I'm not endorsing violence, I can't ignore the creative problem solving on display here.

Steve Mould : I Hacked Into My Own Car

Watch on YouTube

I think one of the really interesting things about this video is that it shows someone taking a basic principle like the replay attack and figuring out how to make it work in the real world. It didn't work at first, and he went through a number of attempts and refinements before it finally did. This is an essential skill because you can't always just follow someone else's instructions, especially when you're dealing with something new and there are no instructions to follow yet.

Kid Changes His Grades By Hacking, He Lives To Regret It

Watch on YouTube

Remember kids, it's better to use your skills for good than for evil. Evil may pay better for a while, but something usually comes along to make it not worth it in the long run.

Is it cyberwar yet?

from here and here

We're probably going to be hearing people talking about cyberwar a lot in the near future, due to current geopolitical instability, but it remains to be seen if anything of the sort will happen. 

There's more than one way to hack

found on Reddit

Not only can axes provide access, they can also deny access if you use them on power or communications cables. 

Go hack yourself

found on someecards

Hacking yourself gives you experience in thinking like an attacker and can help you identify deficiencies in your defenses. Trying to guess your own password probably isn't the best way to do it, but I guess it's a start.

TimTom : Learning to Hack as a Kid

Watch on YouTube

This is a very relatable story. Almost too relatable. Did he hack my brain? It's also very well told

They each could use a taste of their own medicine

from here and here

Both Russia and China have a reputation for hacking others. It's nice to see one or both of them on the receiving end for a change. 

The best way to hack back

from here

You know what they say: Live by the sword, die by the sword. In this case the sword is vulnerabilities, and the company making profit by exploiting vulnerabilities in phones for the benefit of police and authoritarian regimes just got their ass handed to them in the form of exploitable vulnerabilities in their own product.

Hacker Breaks Down 26 Hacking Scenes From Movies & TV

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Getting the guy who infected MySpace with an XSS worm that spread from one profile page to the next to rate the accuracy of fictional depictions of hacking in popular media was brilliant. Samy may not be my hero, but he's definitely the right guy for the job.

No I will not break the law for you or fix your computer

found on Imgur

There are already t-shirts that say "No I Will Not Fix Your Computer" (I have a couple of those), but I really think there needs to be some to answer those hacking requests too. It's not just relatives that ask, by the way.

Hacking Cheat Sheet Mug

Product Page

This certainly seems like a clever idea. No need to carry around a sheet or go to a web page all the time when the commands you're looking for are right on your coffee mug.

GIF no quarter to the enemy

from here

I LOVE the idea of someone driving botnet operators slowly crazy by replacing the most important parts of the botnet with funny pictures. I hope they got so frustrated they pulled their hair out.

Every damn time

found on Izismile

It's surprising that they haven't worked out a solution to this yet. I mean they gather so much information about us, no matter what device we're using, you'd think they could tell it was still us on the second device..

Dual Core : 0x0A Hack Commandments

Watch on YouTube

Wow, it's been a long time since I listened to one of these. Lots of good advice in this song. You should consider listening a few times (and shutting the actual F up while you do).

What's the worst thing they could change the license plate to?

from here

It's one thing to stick a computer into an appliance (maybe the computer can make the appliance function better?), but sticking a computer into something that used to just be a hunk of metal with a code painted on it? Digital license plates feel like the Internet of Things (which is already questionable as it is) jumping the shark.