Some people need to grow up!
Ok just got the Adequacy.org Digest in my inbox today and thought I'd share a lil thing from it with you...
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I find that the average person has a large misconception of what hacker is, which is due to both the media and the government. The media portrays hackers as teenagers with some knowledge of computers, who enjoy sending people viruses, crashing websites, and breaking into people's computers using trojan horses. We call people who do that, crackers. The media portrays us as people who have nothing to do with our time except mess with other people's computers, which is far from the truth. The government claims that we steal sensitive information from them and are a risk to national security. The media couldn't be further from the truth....
& it goes on.....& on.......& on........& on
well needless to say I didn't read it all - you can if you wish here
but the one i found the most amusing......
was this post which is obviously a joke
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I used to hold the opinion that hackers were violent terrorist sociopaths, but a couple of days ago I saw an entertaining and informative movie about the subject that cleared a lot of things up for me.
Hackers is about a group of happy-go-lucky teenage computer hackers who uncover a conspiracy by a large company to dump oil in the sea and blame it on hackers. The computer hackers go after the would-be environmental terrorists and hack into their Gibson (a brand of mainframe computer) to stop them. While this is going on, the government and the big corporations have the police convinced the hackers are techno-terrorists, and our protagonists have to run from the cops. It really is quite a roller coaster of a ride!
I have a few questions about the movie to ask:
The hackers were often depicted riding skateboards and rollerblades on busy city streets. This is quite a dangerous activity. Do hackers wear protective equipment when skating?
While hacking into the Gibson, the hackers were going after the 'colonel'. I've often heard a few of my computer expert friends talking of this 'colonel' and wondered about just who he was. Is he a friendly colonel? What is his job?
The hackers also went to a lot of dance clubs were loud techno music was playing and drug use was no doubt going on. Do hackers worry about the dangers of filling their bodies with illegal drugs, or is this part of 'learning all you possibly can'?
and the very last post :)
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I am fourteen years of age, and I am a hacker. This guy has to be one of the coolest guys I've met. He is right in everyway. Just the other night, my hacking friends and I stopped a virus from leaking out.
What he described above are known as "White-Hat" hackers. There are "Black-Hat" hackers, though, and they are all frowned upon.
White-Hat hackers are the future of America. We are programming "gods", if you will. I make over $30 an hour for local businesses in town. I program, repair, and do other such things for the businesses, and I'm fourteen. I make more money that most of you ever will.
And on the school side. I have learned so many things from other hackers and computer freaks. At the age of fourteen, I know more about history than my history teacher, whom has been teaching for over thirty years.
The movie "Hackers" is really nothing like what hackers are. First off, you never really use the keyboard to hack, you have programs do it for you.
Also, are you saying we can have no social life?
I'm sorry, I didn't know that going to clubs and listening to loud music was against the law. First you people complain that we spend too much time on the computer, but when we wish to go out and have fun, you whine about that, also.
GOING TO SCHOOL takes away from my learning.
Going to clubs and so forth gives me time to think of my real life, spend time with my girlfriend, have fun with my friends.
And are you my mother?
"The hackers were often depicted riding skateboards and rollerblades on busy city streets. This is quite a dangerous activity. Do hackers wear protective equipment when skating?"
Good god.
And to mfk. The $0.0 I spent on Linux is worth it. It's better than Windows XP. Did you know there's an error in XP that deletes your hard drive? Of course not, you don't even know what a hard drive is. I feel pity for people such as you.
LOOK, we are the future, step aside.
That's all I have to say for now.
Virtual Mage, THANK YOU! j00 r0xoRz!
now is it just me or does this lil uber-l337 hac|<0r need to grow up? Its peps like this that really make me laugh! They think they are showing off how class they are when in reality the only thign that they are displaying to the rest of us is just how immature they really are....
Alot can be gleamed from the computer - but there are very few good alternatives to life experience (heh I know that sounds weird coming from a 19yr old - but I realise that I still have some growing up/maturing to do)
v_Ln
