Posted by harsh on November 12, 2008
While surfing on net you might have come across the PC game named “Counter Strike” …….. You might think “Just a game ….. Big deal ….. what’s this fuss all about??” ………
But this is not just another one of those games …… Those who are really into this game can tell you how much of an addiction it can create within you ……… Played on the international arena , Counter strike is no more just a game of clash between terrorists and counter terrorists ……. This game has destroyed life styles of many of us …….. few of them who are good in this game can hardly be found anywhere else but in front of their system ………
If not for the biological demand of the body for the intake of vitamins and carbohydrates and the fear of getting detained due to short attendance , Counter strike could have booked the complete time table of the real addicts ……… few of them say that engineering is incomplete without Counter Strike ….. If you are in an engineering college and haven’t played Counter Strike , your life’s not worth it ……….
LAN wire laid all over …..map loaded …….. team balanced ….. everyone with their unique name (few of them are really weird ) ……. Guns loaded ….. bombs ready to be planted in the target zone …… and server is all ready to host one of those bloody encounters …… just when everything looked to be going fine , someone’s latency crosses 100 and the server hangs , resulting in the victim’s request to restart the game …… and that’s how it goes around everyday …….
People are ready to sacrifice everything to play this game …… thay have sacrificed the latest cool shaped advanced mouse for the old traditional one , just because its more comfortable to shoot the aim ……. they have sacrificed Windows Vista Ultimate to give way to Windows XP (Counter Strike doesn’t go that well with Microsoft’s youngest kid ) …….. and as I can see around , they are even ready to sacrifice Planet Orkut for the game (shocking as Orkut was once their best friend ) ……..
A game that has become a lot lot more than just a game ….. that’s Counter Strike for you …..
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Posted by harsh on October 31, 2008
Don’t get confused by the title and start thinking that I have hacked something big ….. just couldn’t come up with a more flamboyant title to describe something interesting that I did last summer ….. Just have a look at the snapshot of the inbox of my temporary “hacking special” yahoo account …..
Please don’t get me wrong …… I am not a professional hacker 
…. And all the victims listed here are no one but my college mates ……. Almost everyone in the hostel having an orkut account had their password at my disposal within a week of setting down the trap ……
Well , it was just a mixture of few fake login pages and recently released greasemonkey hack that led so many victims towards my inbox …….. It feels so great to have the power in your hand ….. to have all your buddies requesting you not to tamper with their account …… Infact I didn’t tampered with any of those passwords …… Almost all of them are unread till date (except a few…..some of them wanted to confirm the tragic incident)…. 
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So that was till a few days ago …. I stopped receiving any more mails titled “Password Hacked by Ethical Hacker”……Either the script has stopped working (never checked it again) or my friends have gone extra careful knowing that someone’s always sniping them down ….
All was going well …. I had given my hacking business a halt ……Everything was going as per the routine until one day when Ashutosh called me …….
Ashu : Harsh , have you hacked me off late ?
Me : No buddie , not this time . (in a mocking tone)
Ashu : Its not a joke . I am serious this time around .I am unable to login into my orkut account . It’s got to be you . No one else can .
Me : Are you gone nuts ? What interest will I hold in changing your password and robbing your account off you . It doesn’t make any sense.
Ashu : Don’t give me any excuses . I am dead sure its you . So , are you telling me or what ?
Me : Don’t act foolish . I told you its not me . For God sake , believe me damed.
Ashu : So you are not telling . Go to hell . I don’t give a damn about that account , I am better off making a new one than pleading before you . By the way , thanks a lot .
With these words he finished the call .The “Boy who cried Wolf” story started flashing in my mind . I was blamed of doing something that I hadn’t done and more so by one of my close friends . I don’t blame him . I would be baffled too if someone hack me down ….. and anyways , I blackmailed him a number of times saying that I have got his password “safe” in my inbox ……
Though it took just one meeting for us to clear all the misunderstandings , I learnt the same lesson that the wolf story teaches us ….
“Don’t cry ‘wolf’ , when there is no ‘wolf’ , even if there are few wolfs around! “
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time to spend some a lot of time with the books ???? No television , no time pass , no nothing … and excuse me , what is Internet ?? A classic example of a study bug … a mugger . Had it not been the desk rotation policy in classes , I guess I would have been a first bencher all the way . And guess what … I secured 100% attendance in High School and was also awarded “Most Disciplined Student” ( Disciplined ??? ahemm ahemm…). Elected as a captain twice in a row , 92.8% in Xth , 94% in XIIth , my teachers still set my case as an example for the juniors .
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