> Set her password to qwerty1<p>I feel like this may break the rule about not interrupting her daily life.<p>Since the other easy password documented in the article wasn't her current one, it is at least possible that she had chosen a more difficult password as her current one. Downgrading from her current password back to the old easy one makes her vulnerable to other attackers-- especially if she did not quickly reset it to something other than qwerty1.<p>If it sounds like I'm nitpicking, just imagine that the game was "try to hack my old bitcoin and send it around and back." The moment the hacker sends to the "qwerty1" address it's going to get immediately eaten by some automated script by one of a thousand other hackers.
Sweet hesus, installing a keylogger on your own system to steal passwords from friends who are trying to help you?<p>And the content doesn't show any awareness of the issue. Perhaps it'd be more clear to that poster if one of those friends would've used the keyboard access to type "format c:<enter>".
In what world is the author living that "Physically go to the same place as her, connect to the same WiFi, and steal her browser session" would work?
previously on HN:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18391120" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18391120</a><p>And many other submissions besides that one.<p>For instance<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919845" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919845</a>
Skipping through kilobytes of humor, a voice start speaking in my head. Imperial voice. From TES Oblivion: "That's... a bit excessive, don't you think?"<p>Otherwise, a pretty decent OSINT job so far.