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How Crackers View Themselves
prostoalex writes "Dr. Orly Turgeman Goldschmidt from Hebrew University of Jerusalem conducted a research to figure out if there any any differences between the classic computer vandal stereotypes and the real life. After surveying 54 Israeli repondents and using the term hacker gratuitously, Goldshmidt found out many computer vandals to be "young, well-educated men without a
criminal record, who belong to the middle or
upper class." 3 out of 54 respondents were women, some of the respondents were married and had children. Goldschmidt's survey seemed to include somewhat low-life representatives of computer security community, the type who goes on shopping sprees on stolen credit cards, so take the findings with a grain of salt."
Crackers 0wn your webcam server, then redirect from their own webcam. This is how they 'view themselves'.
Don't believe anything I say. I crash test crack pipes for a living.
Because Kernel Crackers sounds stupid!
All crackers view themselves as Neo, these days ... Apart from the female ones, who view themselves as Trinity. All the male crackers of course assume that all the female crackers are male too...
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
Kernel crackers would probably be quite nutritious, though.
some of the respondents were married and had children.
That makes them normal, not hackers. Move along now.
On the contrary, Kernel Crackers sounds like a snack they should sell over at ThinkGeek...
Something like a combination cracker/pretzel/pizza flavor, heavily fortified with caffeine and vitamins so you don't have to leave your workstation for days at a time!
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Sounds awful familiar, doesn't it Slashdotters?
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
Besides, isn't Cracker a racial slur anways?
How about we all agree to use Honkey(sp?) instead.
...so take the findings with a grain of salt.
Is this some obscure joke about salted crackers?
*Almost went on a rant about how a TCP handshake works*
Anyways, a "real" haxsor would not go to some public conference or talk to a journalist. Public conferences always remind me of police stings. Hey, come claim your free prize at this conference haxs0r!
But anyhoo, "When you crack a code, it gives you an amazing feeling" is downright funny. What "codes" are they cracking? And how?
My best guess is they are getting an amazing feeling once they run a password list on a pr0n cracking util they dl'd off astalavista.com
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
I still am surprised to hear hacker used in a bad context. I remeber it being a good things, I person who worked hard through the night building things.
I hate it when words change their meanings.
Come the revolution, the Bourgeois, Capitalistic, "A PARKING STICKER HOLDERS", will be first against the wall!
Well, the original article is in Hebrew. Right? So maybe something was lost in translation. Maybe "When you crack a code, it gives you an amazing feeling" started out in Hebrew as "smashing a variable stack by overflowing an input buffer on an exposed port and injecting arbitrary code thereby gaining remote root access on the machine really gives you an amazing feeling."
Or not.
It's also so easy to do my sister
Christ, man! She's just a kid!
Homophobia should not be tolerated on Slashdot! Ban this motherfscker for suggesting such an evil awful thing. Gay people are human too you know.
Actually, Kernel Crackers sounds like some KFC that's gone horribly, horribly wrong....
Karnal
Waste countless hours and whole days instead of studying for the finals, why?
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
`Nerd' works.
This is an incorrent claim. The sticks are only used in R&D and lunch, and are not employed in the final product. Stop spreading FUD.
Lalala
"3 out of 54 respondents were women"
I don't like those odds.
TruePunk | Games
In my experience, crackers view themselves as golden brown and delicious, especially with a slice of cheese on top of them and some wine to wash it down.
However, it's been a while since I talked to a cracker, so things may have changed.
I guess you didn't get the memo that mandates that nobody is supposed to criticize Israel.
Above comment reminds me of something my brother said.
He told an off colour joke and a girl sitting at the next table overheard and accused him of being homophobic.
He simply answered
"Don't be stupid. Why the f**k would I be afraid of houses?"
If you get modded down for a first post... What do you get for a last post?
You're asking us to take a site called "Secure Synergy" seriously?
taken a vow of celibacy like my Father, and his Father before him.
Somewhere in the 'real' Real World.
Two hackers, uh, I mean crackers, erm... dammit! Two geeks meet in person for the first time.
Neo1337357: Trinity? [Blah... something about a bank IIRC, I can count the number of times I've seen The Matrix on two hands] I..... thought you were a girl.
Trinity9348: Most guys do.
'Neo' becomes very uncomfortable as he realises he is standing in an S&M club with a large, sweaty guy he has shared his most intimate fantasies with.
Somewhere in the background a Rob Zombie track is playing. Fade to black.
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