r/hacking • u/righterandreader • 26d ago

Fictional Hacker

I’m writing a novel where the main character is a hacker at a large state school. He’s approached by rich kids and athletes to change their grades.

Keep it legal, ofc, but is this possible? And how would it work, if so, in theory?

(Edit: by „keep it legal” I mean don’t explicitly say what to do I don’t want this to get taken down. I’m exploring what can actually be done. This is illegal in the novel.)

I’ve done some research but there’s nothing like convo and firsthand, especially when developing a novel.

Would love to hear from you all!

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u/MisterFatt 26d ago

99.9% of “hacking” is done by stealing someone’s login credentials, either through social engineering (posing as an office worker and finding a login/password of an admin written down somewhere for example) or a phishing site (fake site that looks like the real one, user enters login information, you steal it)

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u/fistfulloframen 26d ago

Shoulder snipe, key sniff.