You can see people doing that all the time. The biggest barrier is if your ethics allow you to do it. A lot of people have gotten very wealthy because their ethics don’t care.
A technical and advanced forgery would have corrected the checksums. Any script kiddie that knows a bit of python can forge packets with the scapy library, or any number of other packet manipulation libraries.
What would some use cases be for forging packets, aside from trying to claim a stolen election.
I’m not really asking because I want to do anything nefarious; just pure curiosity with these kind of things. Darknet Diaries is a great podcast for this kind of thing.
Funny packets make things behave funny sometimes.
Sometimes you just need to see how something behaves when you send it illegal packets that the real software would never send.
It also makes it possible to cheat in some games by lying to the game server about interactions in game.
Essentially hackers need a way to talk to machines at every level of every protocol and Scapy is a pretty standard way of achieving that.
That seems like pretty technical and advanced forgery for someone of his inclination?
I’m sure he had help from a comrade or 2
The reality is that it’s probably him who got conned by whoever sold home the “proof.”
Now I’m thinking I can grift extremists by faking stuff they would lap up.
You can see people doing that all the time. The biggest barrier is if your ethics allow you to do it. A lot of people have gotten very wealthy because their ethics don’t care.
Reminds me of a lyric in a song by Ren:
A technical and advanced forgery would have corrected the checksums. Any script kiddie that knows a bit of python can forge packets with the scapy library, or any number of other packet manipulation libraries.
What would some use cases be for forging packets, aside from trying to claim a stolen election.
I’m not really asking because I want to do anything nefarious; just pure curiosity with these kind of things. Darknet Diaries is a great podcast for this kind of thing.
Funny packets make things behave funny sometimes. Sometimes you just need to see how something behaves when you send it illegal packets that the real software would never send.
It also makes it possible to cheat in some games by lying to the game server about interactions in game.
Essentially hackers need a way to talk to machines at every level of every protocol and Scapy is a pretty standard way of achieving that.
I think someone sold it to him knowing he was too incompetent to have a second source check it.