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I have been wondering. How do those people who come on here and post like a question hear about AO? Like when people come on here and say like "My little brother changed my password and how do i get into my account now" (hypothetically speaking). Well how do those people hear about AO? I heard from a friend and came here to learn hacking. When infact i got here and learned that this site isnt even about hacking. Then I got into the security and programming aspect of computers.
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If you search for Hackers on google AO comes as the 4th-5th result, so people assume that it's about hacking, and to be honest the file achieve on here doesnt really tell people we're about security (een though the tools are almost all outdated), so people assume, oh they got that and this in Downloads, ""they can help me to hack my girlfriends hotmail so i can see if she's a lesbian and doesnt want to be with a retard like me !""
mainly search engines, specifically google. you type in computer security at google, ao is like 4th.. etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc *50
Ahhh....yea I kinda figured it was search engines. Its wierd some of the people we get here with their poor social engineering attempts.
I used to visit antionline before it was a forum .. just to read the security news etc, then when it changed to a forum based site I visited it on and off for a while but never signed up. Then one day I just felt like it :). Some of the guys at work saw me browsing AO aswell and signed up but they never post heh
Ive received the indication from a security guy that runs a forum like AO here in Brasil..
Its also listed ina few books. Steal this computer:book 2 from no starch press is one of them. I cant remember the others off the top of my head
I've known about AntiOnline for 6 months or so. I just enjoy reading it in my spare time, never really thought about signing up and posting myself :-)
I was searching for security certs on google, found antionline, and it was love at first site :)
I found AntiOnline through the Attrition.org site. They have a nice loving relationship with JP and I decided to check out Antionline to see what it was all about.
I was referred by my best friend: jcmcb
But he doesn't come on here anymore, so he sucks. :p
What? That's just as bad is people who get into the H word then later down the road beleave that they have anything worth social engineering.Quote:
Its wierd some of the people we get here with their poor social engineering attempts.
I found AO like everyone else has. I seen a URL then either typed it into my browser or click... click... clicked.
I forget how I heard about it. I think I was reading on happy hacker or something. I think the reason I didn't think it was a hacking site, was for one the motto or whatever of the site. It seemed to have a security theme. I also read for a bit before I actually signed up, so that helped me a lot in knowing it wasn't a hacking forum. Also, i wasn't looking for a place to ask people how to hack and have them tell me. So I guess how I heard about AO and my entry into it was pretty smooth.
I was searching for a fix to a problem I was helping with on a friend's system. I found the correct solution here and after reviewing some of the other posts that this would be a good place to help others, as well as learn more.
Was doing a Google search for some php info and found myself here. Thought I'd stay. =P
I stumbled across Antionline while looking for security forums on Google. I was getting feed up with places like http://www.jinx.com/ and http://www.hackinthebox.org/ where either you got punks asking questions like “How do I Hack” or if you ask a legitimate question none of the “elites” seem to know what you are talking about. So far this it the best security forum system I have found, I think the Antipoint system makes it work well.
We get people here asking "how do you hack" all the time. It seems like a common thing for security forumes.
Trust me, it's not near as bad here as it is at the two places I listed above. Antionline is the best forum system I've found.
well a friend of mine told me about antioline and how prestigious it was (way back in 2002) after i got out of my hostel i registered in this one .
I was on a linux site and somebody was asking alot of windows questions. Somebody mentioned this site. Now I have a place to search for any problems I might have in windows.
AO is a good place to search and read up on the security aspect of computers.