party trick to shut up the non-believers

[rgula at tenablesecurity.com (Ron Gula)]

On 5/3/2010 11:54 AM, Robin Wood wrote:
> Hi
> At a party the other day I was asked the normal question of what do I
> do for a living. I said security and kept it a bit vague but was
> pressed so explained what pen-testing is and roughly what I do. I then
> got the challenge, prove it, prove you can hack a company.
>
> People would say to a dentist, prove you can do a filling but this
> person insisted they wanted a demo. I explained the legalities and
> finally fobbed them off and got away but it got me thinking, has
> anyone got any good party tricks that they can pull in this kind of
> situation that give an instant wow but are easy to do and legal? Not
> quite legal but I was thinking if I knew any big sites with XSS I
> could rewrite but none came to mind at that time.

You could keep sanitized screenshots of your conquests on your phone.

-- 
Ron Gula, CEO
Tenable Network Security