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If You Hack NBC, You Don't Get to Meet Tom Brokaw

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-pretty-funny dept.

subgeek writes "Security Focus Online is carrying this story about the spot that Adrian Lamo almost had on the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. NBC changed their mind after they realized the possible legal implications of filming someone hack corporate systems. NBC also seemed a bit touchy that Lamo had gotten into their system so handily. According to the article, it took him about five minutes and one guessed password to get inside NBC's intranet from a computer at a Kinko's. Lamo's comment: "It was a very full service system.""

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  1. Please... by JohnDenver · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You wrote:
    Isn't that the point of a parody? To show how absurd things would be if taken to extremes? They're bound to be right once in a while.

    Spaceballs warned us of this day!!

    I wish I knew somebody who installed Linux recently. I'd love to get a story posted on Slashdot

    1. Your first 3 sentences were patronizing and condecending
    2. Your 'Spaceballs told us this day would come' was meant to be disarming, especially after being patronizing and condecending.
    3. You didn't get the joke, your disarming joke conveys NOTHING that would suggest you DID get the joke. Your patronizing insights conveyed EVERYTHING that you didn't get the joke. If anything, your disarming joke vindicated one of your point, "They're bound to be right once in a while."
    4. I argue/insult for practise.
    5. I didn't need to get shitty with you.
    6. I don't want to grow up, but I guess I have to.
    7. You seem like a very nice person.
    8. Even nice people can be intentionally/inadvertantly patronizing / condescending.
    9. I didn't need to get shitty with you.
    10. You probably demonstrated one of the nicest ways of correcting someone (esp. the disarming notice)
    11. There will always be assholes like me who will interpret your kind criticisms viciously.
    12. I didn't need to get shitty with you.
    13. I'm sorry

    There you go. Not only do you get an apology, but you get vindication, insight into assholes, and knowning you've influenced someone for the better.

    Rather than trying to learn the art of being insulting, maybe I should learn the art of being insightfully ironical...

    --
    "Communism is like having one [local] phone company " - Lenny Bruce
    1. Re:Please... by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Ya know, the apology is nice, but I really appreciate that you took the time to read what I said and proccess it. That was very classy of you and I appreciate it. I now have a very high opinion of you.

      I read your response this morning and decided to step back a bit and reread my post. You're right, it does sound patronizing and condescending. Didn't originally mean it that way, and I didn't see it that way until I took a harder stab at reading it from your point of view. I believe this means I should work on making my expressions clearer in the future.

      Thanks man. Have a good weekend.