neděle 20. dubna 2014

Hacker in the browser and other hacking ideas

If I was a hacker with the ability to modify web pages in the browser, I would modify the top of Wikipedia and ask people to donate. People accustomed to donations would donate again. But this time to my pocket. If it was synced with the real campaign it would be awesome.

Or if I was Microsoft and detected that two people communication over Skype (or other messenger) are in a relationship, I would suggest the male counterpart to send roses to his fiancé. It would be just a small bunch of roses. But the delivery would be guaranteed in the next 30 minutes for the current estimated location of the fiancé.

And to be even more devilish I would use the fiancé as the vector. I would show a pop-up to the fiancé saying: “Do you want to test your boyfriend? Show him an advertisement with one of the following buckets!” She would be presented with three simple options like snowdrops, violas and sunflowers. She would be thinking about the ad while chatting with the boyfriend and in the end she would click on one of the buckets because who would not like to test the love of the beloved one? And to make sure that the boyfriend is not going to disappoint her (man are notoriously unreliable) she would hinge the boyfriend to buy the flowers until she actually gets the bucket (women can get really persistent when they decide to get something). The poor boyfriend would be then forced to buy the overprized bucket because who the hell should bear all that morning of the fiancé about some stupid inedible vegetable? Sooner he gets over this the better.

The boyfriend would be stressed to buy the specific bucket. But for men it’s hard to multitask (search for a cheaper delivery while chatting with his fiancé). And it would be ridiculously hard to find a delivery with that specific flower (Why the hell didn’t she want roses?!) and even harder to find deliver able to deliver the bucket in less than 30 minutes. Simply Machiavellous.