How to Make It Look Like You are Hacking

Himil
5 min readAug 1, 2023

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Do you want people to think you are a computer genius and Master hacker? Because hacking requires extensive computer knowledge, when people see what they think is hacking, they are usually impressed. You don’t have to do anything illegal to make people think that you’re hacking you can even fake hacking using nothing but the Windows Command Prompt (CMD) or a web browser. Read on for tips on looking like a hacker using basic terminal commands and simulators.

Things You Should Know

  • Use Command Prompt (cmd) on Windows or Terminal on a Mac to run non-harmful but intimidating commands that simulate hacking.
  • Websites like GeekTyper, Hacker Typer and pranx.com display realistic-looking hacker interfaces in your browser.
  • Kali basic terminology

Today you know the main 3 Method to look like a hacker in front of any one so let`s get started.

Method 1 (Using Command Prompt or Terminal)

Fig-1 How to open cmd

Open Command Prompt (PC) or Terminal (Mac)

  • On Windows, you can do so by typing cmd into the Windows search bar and clicking Command Prompt in the search results.

On a Mac, click the Launchpad, type terminal, and click Terminal in the search results.

Fig-2 Windows-Terminal (cmd) color commands

Change the text color. Nothing says “I’m a hacker” more than bright green or blue text on a black background. To change your CMD or Terminal color:

  • Windows: Type color 0A or color A or color a or color 2 and press
    Enter
    for green text on a black background. You can also type color //? or color -help to see a full list of color options.
  • Mac: Click the Terminal menu and go to Settings > Profiles. Select the Homebrew profile for a black background with green and blue text.

All four command have same work to change the cmd color into green and black now I will show you some command to convert your screen in the hacker screen on windows.

Fig-3 Mul-cmd Screen by Different command

Use the Command Prompt or Terminal to There are many that look impressive but won’t damage your computer and are not illegal.

Windows commands: Type any of the following commands and hit
Enter right after. Type each command in quick succession to make your simulated hacking seem more complex:

  • tree (For a longer version of this command, try tree \. If you get tired of seeing the text scroll by, press Ctrl + C to stop it.)
  • dir \
  • ipconfig /all
  • ping -t google.com: The ping command checks to see if a device is reachable on a network, (but the common person doesn’t know that) Google is used as an example here, but you can use any website or IP address.

This command will keep running until you stop it. Stop it, press Ctrl + C.

  • Mac commands: If you have a Mac, you can use the following safe commands to fill your screen with what looks like hacking. Type the following commands into your Terminal and press Return after each:
  • top
  • ps -ely
  • ls -R /
  • ping google.com: You can replace google.com with any hostname or IP address. If you want to stop the command, press Ctrl + C.

If you are not satisfied with this all stuff now these two websites are very scary are completely look like a hacker on your PC 💻screen and many peoples are understand that all these things are really you did online in front of them and all are done automatically by your one command that look crazy.

Method 2 (By Using Browsers)

Fig-4 Pranx

Pranks Hacker. Point your web browser to https://pranx.com/hacker to load this hacker simulator. This is a great website to run in the background while you do other things to simulate hacking. You’ll see a fake computer desktop with windows containing falling Matrix-style text, scary-looking code, and programs like Bitcoin Miner and Nuclear Plant (don’t worry, they’re not real).

Fig-5 hackertype

HackerTyper. Go to https://hackertyper.net/ in your web browser. This website creates hacker-like text at a rate that is sure to shock those watching. One issue you may have with using this site to trick your friends is that it produces fake hacker code too quickly, which may ruin the effect.

Fig-6 Geektyper

Geektyper go to https://geektyper.com in your web browser. This website creates hacker-like text at a rate that is sure to shock those watching. One issue you may have with using this site to trick your friends is that it produces fake hacker code too quickly, which may ruin the effect.

Method 3 (By Using Kali)

This all stuff are done in the windows and in browser now see how to make a real console into hacker best System in kali Linux this is the real console make into the hacker screen to we care to do this because this is the real command run on the kali Linux so make sure that your PC is capable to take this much load on ram to run this crazy command we required some system config are list below

List of Requirement: (I5, 4GB ram or more, vm, kali system)

Now to make console look like a hacker screen first we can install the hacking command on the kali system for that open the terminal in kali for that Open a new Terminal window. Press Ctrl + Alt + T and now Type sudo apt install Hollywood and press
Enter.
This installs a fake hacking program called Hollywood on your Linux system. Hollywood is an intimidating-looking hacking simulator that is sure to impress your friends.

Fig-7 Installation Command

Now it`s time to make a show of like a hacker by just Type Hollywood and press
Enter
For best results, make your Terminal window full screen.

Fig-8 Hollywood Result Screen
Fig-9 Hollywood Result Screen

This all stuff is move in full speed if your PC is capable to make a load exchange as faster as possible that look crazy.

For more this type of stuff like ethical hacker follow now.

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