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After looking at that product page and seeing how something that looks innocuous can be so insidious, does anyone else wonder just a bit whether the page is not so innocent and visiting it may have been a mistake.


Hak5 is legitimate. They sell all kinds of pentesting equipment, and most of it is good. It's mostly just small ARM linux "boxes" with some Bash scripts on top, though things like the WiFi Pineapple will (attempt) to break wifi passwords for you (https://shop.hak5.org/collections/sale/products/wifi-pineapp...)

For lack of a better use (just a hobby for me), i use a Screen Crap (https://shop.hak5.org/collections/sale/products/screen-crab) along with a Key Croc (https://shop.hak5.org/collections/sale/products/key-croc) for a poor mans KVM to my headless server :)

I don't know about the omg.lol page :)


yep.

chrome is now showing me a new "you added this to your cart" feature on my new tab page. it says i have added that product to my "cart".

that page is obviously doing something but i can't say anything evil.


Yes I had that thought too. However I was glad to learn of it's existence so at least I know what is scarily possible.


That would be shooting yourself in the foot really. Hackers hacking hackers?




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