Pick up a book. Bare with me I know even the thought of reading hurts most peoples’ minds now. But it hurts so good! Pick up The Art of Deception by Kevin D. Mitnick it’s on social engineering. A dimwit who can add, can figure this equation out:

Social Engineering + Google + Google Work Group + Badly trained Comcast Employee = The answers you want

*Some variables in the equation may change depending on the users INT modifier.

When using social engineering, you must first educate yourself about the target, and the role you are taking on. Wikipedia is surprisingly helpful and accurate. And google is useful for everything.

Here’s a freebie scenario…

1)Use social engineering to get internal phone numbers.

2)Pose as an employee and tell a supervisor that a customer had a question regarding network throttling.

The customer came up to you when you were working on the cable lines at box (insert your cable box number here, cable box at the end of your street block, not the one in your home, do some research)

Mention you didn’t know how you should answer at that time so you didn’t tell them. But ask him how you should respond if asked again.

3)Mention you’ve heard inter-company
rumors of this, and you wanted to come to him/her to verify that you should not talk about throttling.

4)Depending on how they respond gauge your question accordingly. Jokingly ask “so do we actually throttle speeds for p2p, I know it it causes alot of problems with our throughput”

*Throughput is the amount of data sent over a line per some unit of time. Commonly confused with bandwidth. Bandwidth is the frequency spectrum at which the data travels.

*If you say bandwidth instead of throughput you will come off as unprofessional. An employee would know the difference!

And if you make whatever you want to type an image it is not picked up on search engines. Perhaps under images but those images have to be tagged manually first.

My email if anyone wants to talk with me.

corphack@hotmail.com

So next time you feel like giving tech support a hard time, make sure to provide your work phone number for them so that they can return the favor and harass you at your place of work.

Bottom line is that if you dont like your ISP, change it. That’s the only way they will get the message

Google abilities are absolutely wonderful, no?

” You shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or degrade any other user’s use of the Service, nor represent (in the sole judgment of Comcast) an overly large burden on the network.”

So stop your bitching.

The US seems to be about in the middle as far as Internet connectivity in first world countries. Some countries blow us away (was it Japan that has 100mbps service?) and others are more expensive for much slower service or a low monthly cap. On the other hand, I’m not sure why Comcast keeps upping my upload speed (I seem to be getting a steady 65 kB/s lately) while complaining that their upstream is so congested that they need to resort to Sandvine.

It’s all about network design and over selling.

Over selling should be against the law and Network Neutrality should be the law. Price points should be set by law as well. The “Internet” should be a public utility, just like the public switched telephone network. The 1996 act needs a major update. TV should be the same.

Then maybe just maybe we wont be left in the dust by China in the next decade.