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How to Send Mail to MTV.com
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- elliottcarlson 16y agoThis isn't really hacking, it's just using a mail server, for sending mail... The problem is/was that SMTP AUTH was overlooked as a requirement from the original SMTP spec, and the bigger WTF is that it took about 20 years before it was added to the spec. Edit to add: "While he was on the computer I shut off all the power on the floor." - Because everyone can just stand there and shut all the power off on a floor... if it were indeed a 'hack' then give more specifics, if it's flipping the switch on a breaker... well... that's just that.
- ajays 16y agoKids these days. This isn't "hacking into MTV.com". If "hacking" were equivalent to "breaking into someone's house, making yourself a breakfast, cleaning up and leaving without taking anything and anyone noticing you were there", then this is more like "ringing the doorbell and running away". Just sayin'....
- dkhoya 16y agoI don't think the point of the article was the "hacking" so no reason to really breakdown how good of a hacker Altucher is/is not.
- elliottcarlson 16y agoIf that is the case, then the title is pure link bait; the article wasn't about MTV.com; and the closest to a hack is the social engineering (to whatever degree) used to get the friend to the MTV beach house.
- zeroplus 16y agoI guess illegally entering mtv.com and doing something with their mail server counts as a hack.
- elliottcarlson 16y agoThere was nothing illegal as far as entering... he used a mail server for what it was intended for. The impersonation of the MTV legal team is a different story, but it would not constitute a hack in my opinion.
- citricsquid 16y agowhy are all this guys articles on the front page of hn? They're just pointless crap not worth reading that culminate in "follow me on twitter I'm a super cool guy".
- zeroplus1 16y agoi guess they really stir something deeply inside of you. thanks!