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HACKERMAN'S HACKING TUTORIALS - How To Hack Time

4.5M views · May 26, 2015 · 3:45 · 0 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2015–2024

A comedic Kung Fury spinoff in which Hackerman demonstrates 'hacking' household objects through time. It parodies 1980s hacker tropes.

Why Hacker News points people here: Posted as a joke whenever HN threads touch on hacking or hackers.

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JokeDonHopkinsMay 2015
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Did anyone else notice that Hackerman looks like the 1980's edition of Bill Joy? HACKERMAN'S HACKING TUTORIALS - How To Hack Time this video

in “Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]” · view on HN
JokehaZard_OSMay 2018
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Apparently, the hacker who posted this to HN is so good, he/she hacked into the future to bring it here. Cue the HackerMan intro: this video

in “Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back” · view on HN
JokeTacticalCoderDec 2023

“(my favorite part is when he goes into hardcore hacking mode while putting a Nintendo glove on)”

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Wait, TFA doesn't even contain a link to this vid from Hackerman hacking time!? this video (my favorite part is when he goes into hardcore hacking mode while putting a Nintendo glove on)

in “How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and 1 – a deep dive to GIF” · view on HN
JokefirebazeFeb 2024
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Quite a few people in this thread assume that the AWS key id is part of a "security by obscurity" "protection in depth". This will probably be downvoted, but if you read this anyway: this is a good example of why "security by obscurity" is not a good defense. You will overlook something (a determined attacker will not ) Anything non-"security by obscurity" does not depend on you understanding something or not - it will apply, no matter what, as long as the attacker hasn't a genius on payroll which cracks e.g. AES-256 just so ( this video )

in “How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket” · view on HN