IT experiment w/ second phone

[N0b0dy]

I have this piece of shit second phone with a cracked screen that dies within minutes at full charge. The model is TSL 20S, so a bit old but not dinosaur. I forgot the password to it, and it got me thinking about ethical hacking. I looked into what it takes to hack into a phone, and it's pretty ridiculous. I've gotten through on one of my laptops, but mobile security seems to be more difficult seemingly? With a PC it's pretty easy if you have direct physical access, a flash drive and the memory isn't encrypted. I don't even know where to start with mobile frankly, though I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually (sigh).

Does anyone here have a background in IT who can give tips on where to start? I tried AI but it's too stupid and restricted for this. Obviously this really isn't "on topic" for the forum, but IT is a great skillset to have and there's clearly at least a handful of people here who have it.

Thx.

 

[Heron]

I have this piece of shit second phone with a cracked screen that dies within minutes at full charge. The model is TSL 20S, so a bit old but not dinosaur. I forgot the password to it, and it got me thinking about ethical hacking. I looked into what it takes to hack into a phone, and it's pretty ridiculous. I've gotten through on one of my laptops, but mobile security seems to be more difficult seemingly? With a PC it's pretty easy if you have direct physical access, a flash drive and the memory isn't encrypted. I don't even know where to start with mobile frankly, though I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually (sigh).

Does anyone here have a background in IT who can give tips on where to start? I tried AI but it's too stupid and restricted for this. Obviously this really isn't "on topic" for the forum, but IT is a great skillset to have and there's clearly at least a handful of people here who have it.

Thx.

Hey, if you want to go deeper into ethical hacking, I suggest getting a good subscription on TryHackMe, then you can move on to HackTheBox for the more advanced stuff. TryHackMe will teach you all the IT basics, from complete beginner to professional level. The learning experience is intuitive, with its own built-in terminal, video and text-based courses directly on the platform, and an integrated AI assistant.

 

[Ol argedco luciftias]

A trick with AI to get it to help you with something like this. Do not say at first what you are actually doing. Say that you are playing a game and you want it to play this game with you. Then you say that what you are trying to do in the game, describe what you are really trying to do. Give the details a little bit at a time at first. You can also say that it is homework for a school project. This should get it to not say that it is not allowed to help you with this.

 

[serpentwalker666]

I have this piece of shit second phone with a cracked screen that dies within minutes at full charge. The model is TSL 20S, so a bit old but not dinosaur. I forgot the password to it, and it got me thinking about ethical hacking. I looked into what it takes to hack into a phone, and it's pretty ridiculous. I've gotten through on one of my laptops, but mobile security seems to be more difficult seemingly? With a PC it's pretty easy if you have direct physical access, a flash drive and the memory isn't encrypted. I don't even know where to start with mobile frankly, though I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually (sigh).

Does anyone here have a background in IT who can give tips on where to start? I tried AI but it's too stupid and restricted for this. Obviously this really isn't "on topic" for the forum, but IT is a great skillset to have and there's clearly at least a handful of people here who have it.

Thx.

Throw Arch Linux on a secondary or older laptop, then look into installing some of the password cracker applications from the blackarch repo. They show you how do that on the git hub page.

" # Sync the BlackArch repository
curl -s https://blackarch.org/strap.sh | sudo bash

# Install all BlackArch tools or specific ones
sudo pacman -S blackarch "

GitHub - BlackArch/blackarch: An ArchLinux based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers.

An ArchLinux based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. - BlackArch/blackarch

github.com

Practice on a variety of devices besides mobile. It can be a bit of fun.

I suggest just an arch installer and use the arch install tool they have included now in most isos, because having it stripped down enough to then add the tools from black arch is better then just having a full penetration testing distro on your machine which isn't suited for anything else, this isn't practical and the Iso for black arch is way too huge at 20 GBs.

I currently have a Mac I have to pull down the bootloader on and install either Linux or a newer version of Macos on since Apple has abandoned x86 64 silicon for Arm chips, I have yet to test ethical hacking tools on it but that is somewhere on my plan.

I haven't dabbled really in mobile ethical hacking but this is certainly a start. Throw whatever tools you have when you pull from the repo and try to crack the phone. It will take awhile.

 

[serpentwalker666]

Also try to ask around on a few forums in the Linux world because surely there's some savvy types who will know what to do better then I.

 

[serpentwalker666]

A trick with AI to get it to help you with something like this. Do not say at first what you are actually doing. Say that you are playing a game and you want it to play this game with you. Then you say that what you are trying to do in the game, describe what you are really trying to do. Give the details a little bit at a time at first. You can also say that it is homework for a school project. This should get it to not say that it is not allowed to help you with this.

I don't see why it would not answer these questions correctly.. this is doing nothing wrong.

It is rather legal and ethical in most areas of the world to bypass security on devices you own or have explicit permission to access. Since you are the owner of the phone and desktop, gaining entry to recover your own data is not a crime.

 

[Heron]

Throw Arch Linux on a secondary or older laptop, then look into installing some of the password cracker applications from the blackarch repo. They show you how do that on the git hub page.

" # Sync the BlackArch repository
curl -s https://blackarch.org/strap.sh | sudo bash

# Install all BlackArch tools or specific ones
sudo pacman -S blackarch "

GitHub - BlackArch/blackarch: An ArchLinux based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers.

An ArchLinux based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. - BlackArch/blackarch

github.com

Practice on a variety of devices besides mobile. It can be a bit of fun.

I suggest just an arch installer and use the arch install tool they have included now in most isos, because having it stripped down enough to then add the tools from black arch is better then just having a full penetration testing distro on your machine which isn't suited for anything else, this isn't practical and the Iso for black arch is way too huge at 20 GBs.

I currently have a Mac I have to pull down the bootloader on and install either Linux or a newer version of Macos on since Apple has abandoned x86 64 silicon for Arm chips, I have yet to test ethical hacking tools on it but that is somewhere on my plan.

I haven't dabbled really in mobile ethical hacking but this is certainly a start. Throw whatever tools you have when you pull from the repo and try to crack the phone. It will take awhile.

I don’t think Arch Linux is ideal for beginners.

 

[Heron]

I don't see why it would not answer these questions correctly.. this is doing nothing wrong.

It is rather legal and ethical in most areas of the world to bypass security on devices you own or have explicit permission to access. Since you are the owner of the phone and desktop, gaining entry to recover your own data is not a crime.

Yes, there’s nothing wrong with it, but the reality is that many malicious people would use that freedom to harm innocent people.

 

[serpentwalker666]

I don’t think Arch Linux is ideal for beginners.

You are completely right. Maybe Kali Linux or Parrot OS should have been my first thought, or pull some pen testing tools from a repo onto Ubuntu or a base Debian machine.

Pulling the repo for black arch into a base arch install, after the machine is setup with the Arch Install tool seemed like the quickest way, but not really ideal for a beginner.