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I used to love the interactive ones where it really gives the impression for yourself too that you're hacking, so if it's complicated and fake-functional enough it might be something.
Dunno why anyone would want to downvote this, but here's back up to 1. π
Looked through the posts and might be the tone and double question marks, but the user is using the communities for the intended purpose and it's nice seeing someone excited, curious and passionate :)
Yes, that is a good beginner project if you're learning Python.
It has a lot of flexibility in scale, scope and presentation and bugs don't matter much. This makes it easier to make progress as you can just drop or change parts that are too big, complex or hard right now. Or add stuff at random if it looks like a good idea at the time. It also has a tangible visual output, which is motivating.
Don't worry about it being confused for any real hacking tool. Legit hackers can tell at a glance - even if you were to try your best to pretend it's real :) Labeling it "toy" or "fake" will make it clear for anyone else.
Go for it! Have fun!
Why make it fake? Why not spend time making a port scanner or something that looks for wireless networks and checks for weak credentials instead? Sounds like a better beginner project to me.
Doing a "hack simulator" would likely be easier in other languages, so you will hopefully run into some problems regarding acquiring and presenting the information, which I imagine would give you a decent understanding of the flow of data in python.
I'd say "Go for it", doesn't sound too advanced and not "hello world"-simple either.
Just make sure you make it clear itβs a simulator. While I love to see script kiddie consternation when their ransomware target turns out to be fake, you probably donβt want the real bad guys to use it thinking itβs legitimate. And you donβt want security companies putting you on a bad list because of joke software someone else abused to give a sysadmin a heart attack, either.
It sounds like a fun bit of kit to use as a prank as long as there is an easy escape sequence line the windows fake BSOD.
If you want to see something fun check out the hollywood package in the Apt repository.
Your comment just reminded me of an old Microsoft screensaver just displaying random real BSOD's of Windows versions. Need to find that one again. Edit: Already did, it's by SysInternals so no virus (as screensavers are a big possible security hole). Glad it still exists. π
Also always fun to set up in a friend's (who ideally has no screensaver set up) computer as a harmless prank too. π π
To make it more educational make it interact with the system and the user . For example I would have the program to show a list of real files from the os and prompt the hacker to delete it or not.
thank you!! Yea!! I recently added that feature, there's a button called "open files..." which when clicked prompts to the file selection screen of your OS. So I know that works now!!