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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..
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Encryption can only be successfully used for terrorist purposes. For what possible reason could this guy have encrypted this information?
Now he's dead and we have to ask other criminals to come to Norway's rescue.
Thanks, encryption zealots. Thanks a lot.
I have been pwned because my
If these "hackers" are anything like the Linux people I know, Norway is screwed. You know what I'm talking about, they do the following:
/. that you won't sound like a total idiot if you just toe the party line.
.iso that doesn't exist.
/etc by hand. When newbie leaves, continue to wonder why Linux on the desktop is taking so long.
.9.x for you to REALLY use it. You preach that Galeon is the best browser, even though it only loads .5 seconds faster than regular Mozilla.
a) Pretend Windows doesn't do certain things. ("You can run DNS with Windows?" "Do I need Trumpet Winsock with Windows XP?")
b) Downplay everything that sucks about Linux every chance you get. (TT fonts are "blurry", and "hurt my eyes" - I like my jagged fonts, I think linux fonts are fine!)
c) Research every new Windows feature and figure out how *nix got it first. Then make it sound like the feature has been necessary for mission critical applications and servers, and that only recently has MS "figured it out". If a third party app accomplishes this in Windows, that doesn't count, even though your whole Linux distro is nothing more than a collection of third party apps to begin with.
d) When Linux gets a new feature that Windows has had forever, downplay the feature. ("Yeah, TTF fonts, we got them now, if it'll shut you up, now that I have them, I don't see what the big deal is.")
e) If anything in Linux doesn't have that feature, it is not important. ("Noone uses that junk in Office anyway")
f) You switched to Debian, but you still hate Red Hat because the copy Red Hat you tried 6 years ago sucked.
g) Pray everytime you try a new USB device - ditto for adding new hardware AFTER you've installed linux. Chicken out and use the PS/2 adapter, blame the hardware manufacturer.
h) Blame X11 for every graphical performance measure in your subsystem, even though you have no idea what you're talking about. Complain that X needs to be scrapped for something like Berlin, even though you've never even been to the Berlin website. But everyone says X11 sucks, you just don't know why, but enough people say it on
i) Doesn't matter if you install Gnome or KDE, your menu's are going to have 42 text editors, but not one decent word processor.
j) Find a reason to hate GCC 2.96 even though you've never compiled anything in your life.
k) Doesn't matter if you install Gnome or KDE, because you're going to like Evolution, Konqueror, Kate, GVIM, Gnapster, and Koffice. you're going to like Gnome's applets, but the KDE panel. KDE let's you put a seperate background in each virtual desktop, but Gnome lets you mouse from desktop to desktop. Mozilla looks out of place in both. The one or two motif apps you use make you want to punch your monitor. You decide it's impossible to go with a 100% desktop either way or the other, so you say fuck it and just install them both and run twice the libraries that you need to. Now nothing is consistent, your themes don't match, and now you've got twice as much bloat in your system. When some asks you what you run, you say "GNOME, KDE sucks!" or "KDE, GNOME sucks!" even though you know damn well you don't care.
l) You're too lazy to learn a new window manager, but when another *nix guy asks what you use, you say "FWVM, with nothing but xterms, that's all X is good for."
m) If it doesn't run well on your Pentium II 350, it's slow and bloated.
n) Ten years from now, if it doesn't run well on your Pentium II 350, it's slow and bloated.
o) Blame Red Hat for attempting to destroy/take over the linux community, all the while searching for that SuSE
p) You hate Microsoft because Windows cost $200 and Office costs $400, and it's too expensive to be affordable and how you're poor blah blah, but you're too cheap to send $10 to debian.org/Mandrake Club.
q) When you compare features between Windows and Linux, you compare Windows 95's features to the latest CVS builds of GNOME/KDE.
r) Make fun of DLL Hell in windows, even though you know damn well you --force your RPMs all the time.
s) Your first answer to a new user in #linux is "recompile your kernel", even though all he needs to do is double-click the little icon his distro gave him. When someone else points that out, complain that real men edit
t) You wait for someone to ask how to install something so you can say "apt-get install foo", just so you can start on your 25 minute tirade on why his distribution sucks compared to Debian.
u) You believe recompiling everything from source will give you a substantial performance benefit, even though you probably just recompiled that app with the default flags, but you didn't know any better. If it doesn't compile, see GCC2.96 comment above.
v) When above user posts problems with GCC2.96, link to http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html and flame user for trying to compile "shitty code", even though a week ago, you were doing the same exact thing.
w) You've been saying that Mozilla has been your only browser since M18, though you know that it took until
x) You hated Macintosh your entire life until you saw the bash console on a Mac at CompUSA. You feel kindred with MacOSX fans, but hate Apple because they won't let you rip off their user interface.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Slashdot was good?
he's dead now...
Since, like, 3 people speak Norwegian, how the hell can you have a 'famous Norwegian linguist'?
I mean, if he's so goddamned famous, why haven't -I- heard of him, huh?
if its not american history then who cares??
Ah! It's a wonderful world ...
As a Swede you should be worrying about all the niggers and wogs in your country. It's time to kick them out.
Make Sweden have a whiter, brighter future. You must ensure a future for your white children. No more niggers!
Just ask Jon Barrett. In exchange you may have to give first-posting tips.
I wonder what English for Norweigan is?
Perhaps "Norwegian"??? Jeez, at least use a spell-checker.
As in Webster's dictionary...
They will never know the simple pleasure of a monkey knife fight
Maybe so, BUT OUR SOCCER TEAM JUST KICKED YOUR ASS!
Haaaahahahaha!
USA 3:2 POR
Suck on that.
This sort of thing works both ways and the powers that be aren't going to learn that if you come to their rescue. They'll eventually figure out the password, but if you let them do it on their own, and you tell them why you aren't going to assist them then maybe, just maybe, they'll learn a lesson. Something about doing to others as you would have them do to you.
Prevent email address forgery. Publish SPF records for y
With Norway's barter based economy, how are they gonna pay the cracker who pulls this off? Five chickens and a pig?
How ya like dat?