how long did it take you to hack into nasa not long people have a misconception about what hacking really is i think you're just grinding out passwords there was a exploit that i was leveraging in a database service if you had a website that was running on a windows system there was a msnbc that dll or data connections but it was dynamic link library that was accessible from the internet the problem is the way that it was configured out of the box as you could send it shell commands and basically issue commands to the box as if you were sitting there if you had an account on the machine and it would run under the web user permissions a lot of people when they were using this way of defacing all they were doing is they would echo a text string to the index page of the website so you would just get this black and white screen that said sean ryan was here