"You should understand," says Optyx, as he enters a few commands that bring our machine to its knees, "no matter what people do, hackers will always find a way to get into systems."
Just as he says this, Optyx uses a program to get the laptop to spew out a bit of data identifying its operating system and version.
He then runs the program that cracked the file sharing password in the blink of an eye. We watch as he uses another tool to root through files in the laptop's shared directory.
As hacking goes, the methods our two instructors use on our laptop are not very elegant--the equivalent of using brute force to knock in a door--and through the machine's software firewall, we are immediately aware that the machine is being hacked. But, save from disconnecting our machine from the network cable, we're powerless to stop it.
Most hacking attacks, however, are much more invisible.
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