Plagiarism
I was thinking like I always do about random, mostly senseless ideas and decided to write down this thought.
I recently got volunteered into a project that involved reverse engineering an IT infrastructure that may be abandoned. We may need to crack the network, domain, etc. and I was working on the domain part. I had been under the impression that a Windows Active Directory domain was uncrackable for someone that doesn't specialize in hacking / security. It took us 30 minutes to successfully reset the domain admin password on a domain controller to which we only had physical access to. How? 2 minutes searching on Google for someone else that figured it out.
I also got volunteered into a project that involved implementing mandatory user logins to a set of asp pages. I used scripts that were already created and just adapted them to work in our environment.
I also hear of Web development teams viewing source code of porn sites to get formatting ideas.
With the world sharing knowledge on a grand scale on the web almost anything can be answered with a search and some deduction skills. I consider myself to be a moderately intelligent person and I plagiarize other peoples ideas all the time. If all of us moderately intelligent people continue this trend, won't we decline in our ability to think up ideas for ourselves? Won't we then become creatures of instinct and not creatures of concept? Maybe only the most brilliant of the population will continue to exhibit free thought and everyone else will just follow them creating some crazy follow-the-leader civilization that gets dumber by the day.
De-evolution?
I recently got volunteered into a project that involved reverse engineering an IT infrastructure that may be abandoned. We may need to crack the network, domain, etc. and I was working on the domain part. I had been under the impression that a Windows Active Directory domain was uncrackable for someone that doesn't specialize in hacking / security. It took us 30 minutes to successfully reset the domain admin password on a domain controller to which we only had physical access to. How? 2 minutes searching on Google for someone else that figured it out.
I also got volunteered into a project that involved implementing mandatory user logins to a set of asp pages. I used scripts that were already created and just adapted them to work in our environment.
I also hear of Web development teams viewing source code of porn sites to get formatting ideas.
With the world sharing knowledge on a grand scale on the web almost anything can be answered with a search and some deduction skills. I consider myself to be a moderately intelligent person and I plagiarize other peoples ideas all the time. If all of us moderately intelligent people continue this trend, won't we decline in our ability to think up ideas for ourselves? Won't we then become creatures of instinct and not creatures of concept? Maybe only the most brilliant of the population will continue to exhibit free thought and everyone else will just follow them creating some crazy follow-the-leader civilization that gets dumber by the day.
De-evolution?
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