Reasons to quit cracking passes

[**mobil**]

One of the threads here got me thinking about personal experience...maybe this is sort of a caveat to others thinking about doin git or who are already knee deep in it. Just more reasons, really, why everyone should endeavor to take the time to not just thank your friendly p/w provider, but to really stop and ruminate on what that fellow or gal is giving up in the way of time and resources or risking...this is only my own experience of course but here goes:

Reasons I had to quit (and probably why I never picked it back up again):

1) Enormous amounts of time dedicated to collecting, maintaining, and on the search for working (and fast enough) anonymous proxies; culling, editing, massaging, and recycling my ever-growing library of u/p combos, arranging them and organizing them by genre.

2) Said enormous amounts of time resulted in loss of time better spent with family, and full-time job/work (almost forgot about that ).

3) I started to see u/p combinations in my sleep. Everytime I'd see something new, or meet someone, I 'd immediately start forming up new u/p's in my head based on whatever it was that was going on (e.g., classiccar:1971Maserati, NewDreSS:57bluesequins, you get the idea) I was losing my mind.

4) Speaking of work, I began to find that the only alone time I could find available to crack was AT work....remember this was around 1999 or so and most home still had dial-up, or at best DSL at maximum..corporate office systems were usually alwasy set up with t1 connex. So, I would start "testing" porn sites with this newfound speed and power....I was so cool.....

5) I loved filling pass requests on boards, like this one...so much I once found myself one day covering several boards at once..what a hero I was...until the day I wasn't using a proxy and one of the board owners did a reverse lookup on my naked ip discovered my company I worked for and started threatening to report me


5) Yep, one day the corporate IT decided to run an audit on all user activity and guess what? Someone's "really been hitting the porn sites...a LOT...." Nevermind that I thought I was performing a public service...all my goldeneye and ares, JTR exploiting, you-name-it, hits and misses were making me look like I had chained myself to my desk and spent 100% of my time surfing porn...24 hrs a day...not to mention one or more of the sites must have complained to the company ISP....Dumbass yours truly got called in to the new head boss and I had to sit there in shamed silence and total embarrassment....couldn't figure out how to explain what "mad skillz" I had developed, so I took the rap for being a massive porn freak and system resource abuser....went on restriction, came within an inch of getting fired....had my PC keylogged, I was monitored from sunup to sundown for a year. What a freaking dumbass.....


Feel free to post your own bustups. I just know that I hope noone ever does the dumb-shit crap I did.

So you better appreciate what these guys do....it's sometimes very serious what they risk for themselves....it's not guaranteed "safe" activity....


god bless....

[phileditin]

One reason I never took up cracking was because of things some of my "associates" told me way back in 1998 / 2000. Some gave up because they found other activities that consumed more of their time, like one got married, another simply vanished due to him being homeless, his own choice mind.

Downloading and uploading porn is risky, but nowhere near as risky as cracking in my honest opinion.

One thing I do agree with, thanking people properly for what they've done, be it providing a p/u or simply posting videos / picture sets, I for one have, once only, paid to be a member of a site, and all of what I paid for I've shared here in the Candy Shop.

But to me, it's a means of keeping active, be that I'm staff now, and I've seen many great posters of yesteryear leave, some never come back, but such is the internet, such is life too!!

[Ben Turpin]

I gave up due to fatigue, and changing ISP's to one which blocked some proxy ports from access. The few proxies I got working before were decimated by the new ISP's policies. One day I'll change providers and hopefully be back in proper action again lol

Cracking is one of those things you keep coming back to again.. and again

[Aro]

I haven't taken up cracking for generally the same reasons Phileditin hasn't, its too risky. I also agree that thanking someone for the things that they do and share with everyone else is right, It's really generous of someone to post their accumulated things online.

[Royo]

Yep we've all been there mobil you summed up alot of my sentiment:
I was cracking 10 years ago to the day it was fun at start met fellow crackers learnt new tricks posted shit loads of passes for little gratitude all on dial up btw at my own expense .
Guys start email/IM you for specific sites I remember one guy from holland was mad on color climax even said he sent me a cd with stuff on never arrived total BSers.
Had offers from other crackers/hackers to work with them on their latest sites.But the day arrived when I took a step back and said f$&k it and stopped.

Never say never

[boom60]

I agree with all you guys, but I don't let cracking consume my life. I only crack sites one or two times a month and only if I want to see the site. I also learned early on never to take request because people are generally never satisfied and always want more and more. Cracking is fun and addictive, but like any vice you must control it and not let it control you.

[Minerva]

I gave up due to laziness. I still have my nose in it, but I don't do pass posts for a long time now, just for fun and for friends who request.

[zoner]

i chose another activity to spend my times: photography. i bought my first d-SLR almost a year ago and since then my Nikon has been everything to me.

[Arizona]

	Quote:			Originally Posted by zoner
	i chose another activity to spend my times: photography. i bought my first d-SLR almost a year ago and since then my Nikon has been everything to me.

Well, that makes me a little sad, but more glad my old friend

[zoner]

	Quote:			Originally Posted by Arizona
	Well, that makes me a little sad, but more glad my old friend

thanks Ari.