Curiousity fueled with a lot of time and “mountain dew and candy bars…or Tequila and a joint. I just cannot get to excited about “code.” If I want to hack into something i start in a variety of ways. Pinging…to get tyhe IP. The Hexillion to see who it is. Then I use a variewty of tools I have pciked up. I would suggest “Nirsoft” is a good place to look. I can get thru anypassword in win xp so far.
I reverse learn a lot by picking worms and virus’s out of the computer I built. Googles database hacking is very interesting. So I am not a brain, but willing to ivest a lot of time in a problem. I have the worlds resources at my finger tips. But, I am just a hacker…not using the information for any type of gain, just the satisfaction of me against them. It is like chess….but a little morre technical. H Dale Duke