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Crack a Password, Save Norwegian History
Christian writes "With the death of the only person who knew the password to an archive held at a museum in Norway, suddenly the data became inaccessible. The result? A nationwide radio appeal asking for "hackers" to volunteer to help solve the problem! The
Norway Post has the story." I wonder if they looked under his keyboard yet..
Mesenger: John is Dead!
Meseum: (in sync) Ahhh, he was a lovely fellow, never bothered a soul... wonderful guy... absolutely great...
Mesenger 2: He was the only one who knew the password to the history archive!
Mesuem: That F&%cker! How dare he die... mother f%#cking asshole!
Messenger 2: Hey... don't kill the messenger!
I've already cracked it. Got the archives open right here. Let's see:
In the year 1005, the 1337 v1k0rs raided the English coast for raping and pillaging...
Ottar Grepstad
Heh. The director's got two Unix utilities in his name and he *still* can't hack the system.
I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere.
I have been pwned because my
...this only happens in Norway :)
I wish I could help, but I do intend to travel to the US at some later time in my life, and I don't want to be arrested for circumventig a protection device or something... Boy, do you americans have stupid laws...
free the mallocs!
Tattoo the password inside their body. Or inside their pants; IT operators' pants are never removed near / by other people anyway.
RMN
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Crack a password, save history.
Get a cable modem, go to jail. [slashdot.org].
What kind of crazy backwards world are we living in?
Ladies and Gentlemen of slashdot it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit.
Well? What's the URL so we can all try it? They gotta trust me, I'm swedish! ;-)
Days ago, Ottar Grepstad, director of the culture center and literary museum on the west coast of Norway, was busy selecting his expert of choice to hack a password known only by a dead man. It has been revealed that only minutes after his public appeal for a skiller hax0r to recover this password, his archive was ow3nd by Kevin Mitnick. The notorious hacker released information found in the archive that seems to indicate that Britney Spears was concieved by using frozen sperm from non other than Mike Tyson himself. The egg donor was only referred to in the archive as "Camilla" and it is suspected she is the same woman that Prince Charles is dating.
So.. hah!
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you
*sigh*
If only his name was John Libcrypt...
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I Hit the Karma Cap, and All I Got Was This Lousy
[The] Only trouble was that the expert who had helped the donor with the archiving work had died, and had failed to pass on the password.
Sounds like a job for John Edward, master hacker!
Viv
Gmail invites for ip
Sounds like a good way to get into bed too. The only way for the "bad guys" to get your password is to send a really hot girl over to your house. Ya know, this is probably the last hope for most ./ readers.
(blinks) Isn't that sort of like "The Germans, not including The French" ?
No. To a European, "America" == North and South America, including Canada, Mexico, USA, Peru, French Guiana, etc.
I love it when a European tells me that an average American is so badly schooled that the average European better knows their American history. After asking them who Malcolm Little is, which they never know, and after patiently listening to how some hollywood movie has history all wrong (what a shocker, that), I usually give them an example of classy European geography like this, and send them on their way.
1) Who is Malcolm Little?
2) It's a matter of perspective, a European considers all of North and South America to be "America", Americans and Canadians consider the USA to be "America".
It's like in Canada, somebody from BC would tell you that the "west" is BC and Alberta, somebody from Alberta will tell you it's BC, Alberta, and maybe Saskatchewan. And somebody from SK will tell you that the "East" is Ontario and Quebec, where somebody from Ontario or Quebec will tell you that they're "Central" Canada, when technically they are not, the centre is in Manitoba.
God save our Queen, and Heaven bless The Maple Leaf Forever!
UN Peacekeepers were sent in to Scandinavia today to avert the escalation of an increasingly bitter round of invective between representatives of the area's countries. Tensions began to abate, however, as the traditional taunting gave way to the relatively modern sport of "USA-Bashing."
Milo
Trollem mirabilem hanc subnotationis exigiutas non caperet