Forum:A Hack for Hacking Terminals

If you follow this great tutorial, FALLOUT 3: Hacking FAQ v1.2 by Dave Bosley, you'll get many tips on how to hack the terminals in Fallout 3. However, what's better than to use a real hack to do it? Since I've had more than a few days off lately (summer vacation) I've developed two Perl-script to make hacking terminals in Fallout 3 a breeze.

You need Perl installed to make them work. If you're lucky enough to have a Mac, Perl comes pre-installed. You'll also need to know a little about how to run Perl-scripts, and how to edit a script. Otherwise they should be quite simple to use. And when use them, you can pride yourself in being a real hacker.

You must copy the script code into two files. It really doesn't matter what you call them, but I'd suggest findcandidate.pl and testcandidate.pl.

The first script is to figure out what is the best word to test in the first place. The best word is the word that has the most letters in common with the other words on the same row. Just write down all the words on the screen and substitute your list with the list in the script, and then run it.

In the above example, the word that will pop out is APPRECIATION. In Bosley's tutorial it says that the word has a 4/12 match. That means four letters actually match the password. This is important, because you now need to use the second script.

Put the matchnumber from the test into the new script, together with the matchword, and then run it. The second script is used to find the best alternatives based on the matches you got from the first test. When you test this particular example, two words will come out, namely CONSTRUCTION and TRANSMISSION. One of the words is the password.

Now, if the list with possible passwords is longer, just subtract the words the words that the script does not show, and test a new word in the script.--Kebman 02:09, July 16, 2011 (UTC)