[HACK] - Human Authorized Community Knots

Crack the password or authentication process. 

 There are several methods for cracking a password, including brute force. Using brute force on a password is an effort to try every possible password contained within a pre-defined dictionary of brute force software

• Users are often discouraged from using weak passwords, so brute force may take a lot of time. However, there have been major improvements in brute-force techniques.
• Most hashing algorithms are weak, and you can significantly improve the cracking speed by exploiting these weaknesses (like you can cut the MD5 algorithm in 1/4, which will give huge speed boost).
• Newer techniques use the graphics card as another processor — and it's thousands of times faster.
• You may try using Rainbow Tables for the fastest password cracking. Notice that password cracking is a good technique only if you already have the hash of password.
• Trying every possible password while logging to remote machine is not a good idea, as it's easily detected by intrusion detection systems, pollutes system logs, and may take years to complete.
• It's often much easier to find another way into a system than cracking the password.

 Get super-user privileges. 

Try to get root privileges if targeting a *nix machine, or administrator privileges if taking on Windows systems.

• Most information that will be of vital interest is protected and you need a certain level of authentication to get it. To see all the files on a computer you need super-user privileges - a user account that is given the same privileges as the "root" user in Linux and BSD operating systems.
• For routers this is the "admin" account by default (unless it has been changed); for Windows, this is the Administrator account.
• Gaining access to a connection doesn't mean you can access everything. Only a super user, the administrator account, or the root account can do this.