Here's a fun one; not really a hack, but we suppose it could be used for all sorts of things, like blackmailing your friends and family, or at least embarrassing them. If you and your friends use AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) or iChat you can send an AIM "bot" to go and chat with your pal(s) and then have the conversation emailed back to you. This can be a lot of fun since you can choose the name of the "bot" (like Stacey or Mike), age (as in "17" or "40") and location—the classic "asl" (age, sex, location) you see in those chat rooms no one ever admits to visiting.
As an added bonus, this of course works when you the send the bot after your pals spiffy new SideKick which has AIM built in as well. Basically, this will work wherever theres an AIM client which means, Macs, PCs, Linux and almost all mobile phones now. Just be careful when you send to a pals phone that uses AIM over SMS (text message) as it might cost them money, but hey, like you care, youre already messing with them.
Sending the bot
Visit ChattingAimBot.com and enter in your friends screen name,
your email (thats where the logs will be sent) and choose the bots name, sex, age, location and the first message to
send to your friend, er, victim.
Note: For IE users theres some weird ActiveX thing it wants you to install. We didnt install it on our PC or on our Mac, and it worked fine; we suggest you dont either.
You can only send one bot attack per 24 hours to a specific screen name, keep that in mind and make it
count.
When you start the bot, youll also get a status window to see whats going on.
We might suggest sending the bot to your boss, that way when youre up for a raise and he tries to shaft you with a
1.5% per annum, when you know you deserve a 1.7%, you can show him the logs where he chatted the night away
with Jennie, a 17 year old from California who wanted to webcam it up.
We did send it after some of our friends, some of which are not too happy with us right now, sorry about thatit had
to be done. But in all fairness, we sent the bot after our own account in order to post it here; heres a screen shot
of the bot talking to us on AIM/iChat.
Getting the logs
After the bot is finished, it gives the last message and then sends you the email logs.
Heres the email was sent to our gmail account.
Funkzter662(4:43:01): hey there
pmtorrone(4:43:12): hi
Funkzter662(4:43:23): how r you?
pmtorrone(4:43:30): great, who is this?
Funkzter662(4:43:44): Im stacey
pmtorrone(4:43:46): hi
Funkzter662(4:43:58): what are you doin?
pmtorrone(4:44:07): writing about bots
Funkzter662(4:44:17): whats your name again?
pmtorrone(4:44:21): phil
Funkzter662(4:44:37): :-)
Funkzter662(4:45:37): uh hello? why arent you talking?
pmtorrone(4:45:43): what should i say?
Funkzter662(4:45:56): do u think so?
pmtorrone(4:46:02): what?
Funkzter662(4:46:18): i dont remember anyomre lol
pmtorrone(4:46:23): what are you wearing?
Funkzter662(4:46:33): socks :-)
pmtorrone(4:46:41): where are you?
Funkzter662(4:46:56): in my room
pmtorrone(4:47:02): how old are you?
Funkzter662(4:47:11): ripe old age of 17 ;-)
pmtorrone(4:47:50): do you have a webcam?
Funkzter662(4:48:01): hmm nope.
Funkzter662(4:48:13): :-p
pmtorrone(4:48:41): bye
Funkzter662(4:48:51): aww cant we talk some more?
pmtorrone(4:49:24): bush or kerry?
Funkzter662(4:49:34): lol
pmtorrone(4:49:39): which one?
Funkzter662(4:49:50): I dunn oabout that one
Funkzter662(4:50:55): Are you still there?
Funkzter662(4:52:03): ???
Funkzter662: You have been talking to a computer! One of your friends is reading the whole conversation and laughing
it up right now! GET EVEN! Have the bot talk to all your friends by visiting chattingaimbot.com
Chatroom rage?
We looked around after writing this article to see if there was anyone else doing anything like this, and it turns out
theres an entire group of people tricking others (using humans) to show themselves on webcams and then posting their
photos. Heres the how-to on that as well, careful out there kidswe think
this is going to be the next Punkd.