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From a reader: "The guys over at thebroken have put
together a fun hacking videozine ( .torrent
here ). This episode covers Windows password hacking, destroying your
hard drive with 3,000 degree molten iron, console modding, and an interview
with Kevin Mitnick. Think "The Man Show" meets computers. Divx Required.
"
OMG -- a real live bittorrent related to a frontpage /. article. Now not only can I do my part to cause the /. effect -- I can help enable others to do the same using my own bandwidth!
Who knew the paid subscription would come in handy afterall? I've already got 50% of it. I'll be sharing this puppy for the next few days :) God, I love the Internet.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Useful site for those who didn't catch it first on the screensavers. DAve
Does Ramzi make an appearance?
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
I like the iron idea. I think I'll hop over to the local hardware store and grab some on the way home.
That vid has been out for many weeks.
It's very cool though. Particularly the interview with Mitnick.
This is as much "hacker" as Sum 41 is punk.
That if you do not use BT to DL this then you are officially a TOOL?
This message brought to you by People With Vested Interests In Things Like Downloading Large Files.
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT
These guys came from TechTV. Kinda like a spin-off show of the screen savers. What next? Leo LaPorte and Patrick Norton get their own spin-off?
...because we all know that everyone only uses their password hacking knowledge to get back into their own machines after forgetting the password. Feh. This just sounds like "Jackass" with computers.
It wouldn't be TheBroken without Ramzi! :)
-- Charles A. Plater
It's called password cracking. C'mon, I expect more from a slashdot poster.
Wow, this is quite amazing as I sit here and watch the Torrent. The number of people connecting to it is expanding exponentially!
So what if I don't WANT to install spyware?
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
And you say this on a community that lives off downloads of large files? Think linux iso for a second...
Not that I've watched it yet, but I'm guessing there's at least one aspect of The Man Show that's not going to appear in this video.
Unless you count Mitnick's.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Only one of the files are on BitTorrent, the other two are straight up downloads... I sense a server meltdown on the horizon.
Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul Ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
If you have Winamp you can click on "TV" and watch this and many other shows, music videos, etc. The bitrates available range from 56k for modems, all the way to 1000k for broadband, and everywhere in between.
Think "The Man Show" meets computers.
Oh yeah! Can't wait to see those scantily clad computers!
Except the bouncing jugs are on guys.
Based on another thing mentioned in the summary(don't have universal net access, much less BitTorrent, from work to see the darn thing yet), I now have this temptation to look up the formula for thermite whenever I finally manage to upgrade from my current unstable POS. Take the old shell somewhere sheltered and put it on a nice, durable surface, don welding glasses, light up a blowtorch, and let 'er rip.
Saw the thermite reaction only once in Chemistry, admittedly, but it still seems like a fun way to destroy my hated crashmaster box. Chem rather than CompSci, but isn't that still a nerdy way to do things?
Of course, if thermite is how they actually achieve the 3000 degree iron that's mentioned, so much the better.
NB: YMMV. IANAL. Take the above with a grain of salt.
Older versions of DivX don't have the spyware!
It's interesting to see the torrent download rate gradually increase as more and more people start linking to the file from slashdot's site and get more and more of the file. Very cool. Isn't technology wonderful?
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
and now we'll end our show, like we do every show, with geeks on trampolines.
shudder......
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
A bit behind the times arent we, this was posted over a month ago.
Well consider them a test case to see if a direct link to the torrent on /. can stop a potential download... If it works it shows torrents will save /. websites, if not let the internet gods spare their server from the masses about to descend upon it.
hmm the bittorrent paper says that it does not scale beyond roughly 2000 users. Now, given the number of people who come to /. and the duration of the downloads, it would be interesting to see if the torrent really does die. I have seen the graphs of results going beyond 2600 and it looked prettly bad. Observing the torrent die may prove itself to be more interesting than
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
I'm laughing my head off. They have a great sense of humor. They're what the BBS anarchy-files scene would be, if it had cheap digital video camera and bittorrent.
From: http://forums.thebroken.org/index.php?showtopic=85 88
[FAST]
http://homepage.mac.com/kevinrose/thebroken_3.avi
Scire:
http://www.sourcehack.com/thebroken.htm
[Do not right click, you actually have to goto the page before downloading]
mdubin:
http://maxdubin.com/The_Broken_3.html
[Do not right click, you actually have to goto the page before downloading]
CypherXero:
http://store.mywebdriver.com/cypherxero/vi...thebr oken_3.avi
thebroken server:
http://www.thebroken.org/episodes/03/thebroken_3.a vi
spaceghost7200:
http://www.ghostcorp.net/downloads/thebroken_3.avi
giraphe:
http://giraphe.com/thebroken_3.avi
Lone:
http://www.files.gam3on.com/thebroken_3.avi
Irongeek:
http://orangutan.ius.edu/thebroken/thebroken_3.avi
At least do it for a half-hour after you've completed... that way someone else has a chance of finishing and covering for you after you leave!
Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
I'd share my bandwidth if I could. But I'm not willing to expose my machine to a worm-infested, script-kiddie-prowling public internet in order to do it.
It sounds like every one here is just too cool for theBroken. Get over yourselves and knock the chip off your shoulders.
I'm curious why people prefer to do their own hosting of self made video files and not use archive.org. They have 500mbps of outgoing bandwidth and hundreds of terabytes of storage. Anyone can upload any amount of multimedia for hosting for free. They'll be around for quite a while longer than whatever rigged solution people come up with on their own.
Divx Required? Divx REQUIRED?
No man, no.
FFDShow : http://cutka.szm.sk/ffdshow/
Can I hear a wassup?
An alternate site for thebroken.org is now http://theslashdotted.org
mp3's are only for those with bad memories
This seems like an oxymoron, but how come this torrent is so slow with this many people supposedly on it? Is there a limit to how many a torrent can hold? Can somebody that is not as clueless as me explain this please.
Stay tuned for new sig...
What is up with all these _old_ news?
Dont just do something, stand there! -ESR
If you don't want to install BitTorrent, just download from here, courtesy of the Internet Archive.
on Hackers
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
It's not thermite, it's run of the mill black powder.
And they're idiots. not only was their premise of "destroy your data" poorly thought out (it's a switch sticking out the side of the laptop, with no safety), but it also probably didn't even damage the hard drive platters.
If you spend your time watching this, at least realize that they are TV personalities who in no way represent real hackers/geeks/anyonewithaclue.
It reminds me of CmdrTaco, Hemos and CowboyNeal in the old (and still loved, by me at least) Geeks in Space.
Just a bunch of guys with crazy ideas - first download and I'm hooked.
Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul Ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
I like the show except for the fact that Kevin and Dan keep using those stupid(as in idiotic) gangsta/hip-hop/arrest me please mannerisms and slang. Along with the drinking of 40oz bottles of malt liquor. I think it makes them look ridiculous. It diminishes the fact that these are two guys with some pretty amazing technical skills. If I want to see that kind of garbage, I'll watch some of the losers on MTV with the chains and gold teeth.
-Rob
Wow, that lame, huh?
Ramzi is about the only reason to dl these videos. He's friggin hilarious unlike the hosts who make me cringe.
Not that Kevin Rose guy.
He is annoying as hell.
Tries to build this whole shady elite persona (I've seen him in person in SF) and well, it speaks for itself.
Go in the forums sometims. You will laugh your ass of at the discussions.
They think stealing wireless is "okay" and they promote too much illegal crap on the Screen Savers as well as his site.
Please, running some automated tools does not equate to being elite.
How does this make front of Slashdot anyhow? Did Kevin submit it himself? (A Reader...yeah....) or is it his Slashdot people affiliations.
I was just taking a look at the torrent tracker info and it looks like their are now torrents up for episode 1 and episode 2.
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
yeah, because if there are two thing people REALLY want from the man show, it's more computers and less women in Bikinis.
http://forums.thebroken.org
http://web.archive.org/web/20030216000711/www.kevi nrose.com/docs/kevinrose.txt
Ahh Kevin Rose is at it again.
What I would really like to see is a The Broken video on how to construct a giant death ray. There are lots of things that eger hackers could do with giant death rays. It just so happens that my death ray plan involves mounting the sucker to the moon, targeting the tech-tv studios in San Francisco, and with a few well placed mirrors, frying Kevin. HA! Apprentice becomes the master.
Then I would use my sub-space tidal vortex to rock jump into the studio and steal his beautiful girlfriend Sarah. Then I would lock Sarah up in a castle in a have little bunny foo foo go on a Lan Party (powered by nVidia!) escapade through a land full of castles and easy to kill bosses only to find a stupid little mushroom twit telling you that the princess is in another castle... with me... and hot grits...lots of hot grits
If your reading Kevin, watch your back you incensitive clod.
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
..and not only is the site still up, but my cable modem is hitting the rate I'm capped out downloading the .avi off their site. ...*eerie*... ..this server isn't normal.
I am a viral sig. Please copy me and help me spread. Thank you
Wouldn't it be cool to see G.W. Bush eat crickets and blow baloons out his nose too!
Wholly entertaining! I could only take it in 5 minute intervals, though...
:)
It's hard to watch dorky white guys who think they're a) cool and b) black for more than a short stretch at a time.
Karma: Chameleon (Mostly affected by the 1980s)
I can't believe /. took this long to get this news up... i've had this torrent for over a month now...
theBROKEN rules though... Kevin Rose and Double D and Ramzi are all leet sauce!
Too bad they don't come out with stuff on a weekly basis, though... their videozine is probably one fo the most informational computer security things out there of late.
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GO VEGAN!! www.peta.com
No thanks.
Seriously though, the console modding part looked pretty cool.
thebroken is for newbies , this does not need to be on slashdot.
It's more like Wayne's World with computers.. But, it's funny as hell.
The video editing is pretty kick-ass too. It's amazing what you can do with a couple cheap camcorders and a decent PC.
There were a couple segments that were not obvious how they created. They might have access to some more professional tools. One short clip was a fly-through of a file hierarchy - when telling how to strengthen Windows authentication. Another was an animation of the laptop, for the segment on destroying your data.
But, overall it was damn funny stuff. The intro was great..
What is the deal with Kevin Rose? His TV persona is silly, and the stuff he shows in his screensavers segments are far from 'leet.
But who is he really? Now he is working as a paid actor. I keep hearing how he "used to work at the Dept. of Energy".
Anybody know what he did there? How are this dude's GEEK CHOPS as it were?
Kevin Rose gives the tech community in general a bad name. He doesn't wash his hair nearly enough and generally appears unkempt despite being on national television. Hint Kevin, grease is never cool.
.nfo files were (NFO files are text files used by warez groups to include information about the stolen software (cdkeys and the like), and are almost never distributed with legitimate files. I have yet to see Kevin offer a tip that can be used positively (his segments rarely involve fixing something and usually involve breaking or cracking something, usually something expensive)
Things generally head downhill as soon as he opens his mouth. The advice and iformation is almost never useful (unless engaged in illegal activities), and is always much more entertaining for him than the rest of the audience. Most recently, he discussed on air what
Probably my favorite incident involving Kevin was the episode of screensavers where Yoshi had brought several remote control vehicles to the set. Yoshi was illustrating how good the suspension on on vehichle was by dropping it from chest height. This of course was not enough for Kevin (he didn't get to drop it), so he takes the car from Yoshi and is promptly warned that if he drops it, to make sure it lands wheels down. Of course Kevin the Smart tosses the car up into the air, sending it tumbling towards the ground. Needless to say, the chances of the rotating vehicle landing correct-side-down are slim to none and the $400 car lands hard on the delicate radio and engine parts. Kevin
These are my current BitTorrent stats:
saving: thebroken_3.avi (152.9 MB)
percent done: 26.2
time left: 43 min 29 sec
download to: thebroken_3.avi
download rate: 56.86 kB/s
upload rate: 73.17 kB/s
download total: 40.1 MiB
upload total: 73.5 MiB
I have a public IP-address (I'm not behind a NAT gateway), but I'm behind a firewall that blocks any and all incoming connections (except to port 8080, where Apache is listening). I have full access to the outside however. Given this situation,
a) How are other clients able to send upload requests at all? Do other clients send upload requests in the same TCP/IP connection where I'm downloading from them? When I look at the output of netstat, nobody is indeed connected to port 6881-6889 on my machine, but some connections have quite large Send-Q values.
b) How come I'm getting such a low download rate while I'm uploading so much? Aren't those clients detecting that I'm uploading to them or so? (I have plenty of bandwidth left)
I'm using BitTorrent 3.4.1a.
FWIW: before this firewall was installed, I could easily get 100kb/sec upload, 300kb/sec downloads (and more). The firewall does not rate limit (normal downloads actually go a lot faster than before, because our outside connection was upgraded at the same time).
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This show is really good. People should download it and submit it to their public access cable TV stations. Most cable systems have a channel that anyone living in the area can submit shows to, a lot of it is boring religous programming, this would be much more interesting for most people to watch.
It varies from municipality to municipality exactly what needs to be done to get it on the channel. Some you can just call up and say "Hey download this file", others you might have to pay a membership fee and submit it on tape.
...since it contains cracked copies of paid for software...thanks, but no thanks. The free version of divx (read the basic version, not the free adware supported pro version) is fine for anyone who just wants to view videos, its only when it comes to actually encoding them that the paid for codec comes into its own (being faster).
Link to FREE basic codec, no spyware in this one.
I am NaN
Someone explain how building a cement filled tube qualifies as "hacking".
These guys are running Openssh 3.4p1 at thebroken.org.
... old?
Isn't that kind of
LEET!!1
is that it's running under java, and always brings my computer to it's knees...
even at minimal up/down kb settings, all my web browsing, email checking is extremely reduced in speed, and I CANNOT play diablo with it runnning at all.
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
it's still my fav bittorrent client. best legibility and maintaining of multiple torrents at the same time..
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
It's more like: Beavis and Butthead logon to Wayne's World IRC server.
C'mon, man, get with it!!! You can have Ze Sweedish Chef reading from the Anarchist Cookbook or something like that. Have Gonzo try out Prof. Bunsen's latest rocket-propelled computer case mod. And there can be an entire segment on the martian space probe a la Pigs In Space. And don't even talk about how Kermit ain't 1337 'coz you have to be 1337 when they name a protocol after you.
I did buy a cheap 40 GB HD and i did acid it after of encrypting my data to the tapes, XD.
open4free: "the paranoic"
so gay. ramis loves the cock! he looks insashable.
a lot of you are idiots, here's why:
...its a joke.
1. most of the dumb things discussed on techtv are questions from actual dumb viewers. if you've watched any of the shows and heard any of the calls they take, you would notice that they are mostly newbies or retards. its MEANT to be newbie.
2. re: gangsta mannerisms.
3. never have i seen such a large group of "intellegent" people take shit so literally. for example, with the laptop burning thing...do you actually think they were proposing that as a practical solution? smarten up!
4. all this talk about kevin rose, yet i don't think anyone mentioned how big a tool kevin mitnik is. i suppose you thought the idea of blackhats sending him their exploits so he can "write a book" and make money on their backs was great.
Again, people sound surprised when they find that techtv and thebroken are newb oriented. I have an idea...lets make a show about networking with cisco and os programming. can you say "failure"?
come on, that's so 1997
The greatest experience we can have is the mysterious.
- Albert Einstein
I must admit guys I am impressed and I want to say thanks.
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.py files from the cvs.
No, I am not talking about the video, I am talking about *nix.
I have worked with linux before but CLI only (firewalls mostly + apache). I just installed mandrake v9.2 (I am searching for a disto that I like, and no I can't roll-my-own) and after getting it setup in a way that I could work with I saw this torrent link on
Challenge! I d'loaded and installed the BT.rpm (I don't think it worked) so I went and grabbed the
5 minutes later I was d'loading the movie.
I just tried playing it and I assumed that it wouldn't work (all the warnings about divix, and I know that I haven't tried installing any codecs) and to my surprise it started up right away. AND it runs smoother then it would in XP.
Congratualtions and way-to-go. Thanks to all who contribute.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
I have seen the graphs of results going beyond 2600 and it looked prettly bad.
Coincidence? I think not.
Freedom: "I won't!"
Ramzi:"Hello again my hacker beotches, Ramzi in hizz house. As leet hackers...."
Ok I know it's supposed to be funny, but it just makes me cringe.
But seriously, here's my opinion. I'd like to think it counts for something being a producer and all...
There seems to be two types of people that comment on projects like The Broken, and HaXXXor, and 2600, et al.
First there's the people who say, wow that's cool.
To them, I say: Thank You.
Then there's the people who act as those the presence of any material, whether it's a video, or a print magazine or whatever is a direct threat to their way of life. Then the screaming begins.
It's not the type of thing a REAL SYSADMIN should care about, it's only worth reading if you're 15 (obviously doesn't apply to HaXXXor), it's stupid, why bother, and on and on and on.
I don't really see why the negative points are really valid, besides from the obvious fact that freedom of speech means freedom of all speach. Once you get past the freedom of speech part though, it really doesn't pan out.
First, it's a good thing that people are making videos and books and magazines talking about this sort of thing. While it may be old hat to some people, there's a lot of other people out there that haven't even heard of this stuff. So the next time that you want to lament the masses for their ignorance, remember the heaps of criticism that anyone who produces any material that might help a few more people who aren't as L33t as you to bridge the gap.
Second, for the people out there who throw out the massively insightful, this is stupid and pointless, why bother, type of remarks. Just remember, a lot of really cool things have been created because someone spent a lot of time working endlessly on something that was considered pointless, and then an occassion would come up with something that proved to be useful.
Here's the deal, just remember that there are people actually creating these things. There's a person on the other side of the video, or book, or magazine, or whatever, that's put a lot of time and work in to it. If you think you can do better, then pick up a camera and give it a shot. But if you've never even tried doing something like that before, then why don't you try to appreciate the work that was put in to it, and what was done right, before you rush to tear it apart.
In this community, it is common that a program that still needs a whole lot of work gets gushed over, but the moment someone makes a video it's an instant target? You really should be supporting these efforts (or at least constructively criticizing them). It's hard enough to be a small independent producer. However, it's small independent producers that are the competition to Hollywood and the big television networks. Do you prefer them to be the only people who talk about hackers?
Anyways, that's my take on it...
HaXXXor.com - Naked Chicks Teach You How To Ha
Didn't they release this a couple of months ago?
Wow I guess I am more 1337 than your are. W00t!
I remember awhile back the prices for their tshirts were kept in a hidden form field and to get discounted tshirts all you had to do was save the html locally and change the hidden fields. I emailed them and apparently they didn't think it was a problem. Their server allowed zone transfers. Ran gobs of outdated exploitable daemons. Their bulletin board software contained quite a few sql injection exploits.
Not getting into a hacker war, these guys really don't know what they are doing. Passing prices through hidden values? I think they use someone else's ecommerce software now, but before they were using cgi they wrote. That's seriously pathetic. They don't know very basic things related to security. They are the worst security site I've ever seen on the internet. Worse than happy hacker.
War driving? This site should just slap 1337 speak all over their site right now and get it over with, because that's about the level site they are. Bugtraq, Securiteam, Packetstorm, Phrack, and the likes are quality security organizations. I can't say I'd put the broken in nearly the same league as them. I doubt they could smash anything for fun an profit.
Your death ray plans are already foiled since I've been holding the moon for ransom since the 80s. You're just a wanna-be evil genius.
Don't these guys work for zdtv? I've def. seen them on the screen saves before.
A public service announcement from thebrOken.org
I don't see so much hacker/cracker debate as I do "this guy doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about" debate. He basically seems like a script kiddie. Discussing techniques from 10 years ago and offering trite and useless information. War driving? Ummm...sure, lot's of 16 year olds do that. His next article, war dialing and brute forcing. Serious security researchers are much more skilled than him. I don't put him in the same league as gobbles or immunitysec. I put him in the same league as the 15 year old next door whom tries to trick people to download sub seven. I question whether he can even program, let alone write a buffer overflow exploit. He comes straight out of "hacker" stereotypes from the movies. The average security researcher has more skill in their pinky than he could even fathom.
To give you an idea of what it is to be a small video producer, a couple of weeks ago I got together 6 extras, a photographer, a cameraman, and went on location to film two short scenes. It took all day to set this up, get everyone to where they needed to be, get everyone to know what they were supposed to do, and to do it. Then to do a small cast party to make it worth their time to come out. It then took half a day to edit, and another half day to screen and fine tune. Writing the script it's self took about another day.
So let me ask you how much end footage I generated from three days worth of work. About 80 seconds.
Why this much effort? One of the biggest constructive criticisms that I received from HaXXXor Volume 1: No Longer Floppy, was that they liked the concept, but would like to see more than hot chicks just reading text off my Powerbook. That's why I put in the work.
I also received a lot of people saying something like, stupid skanky ho's reading off a laptop, and those I ignore. There's a big difference between the one and the other.
The point of what I'm saying is that there's a big difference between making a video, or any other "product," and posting a quick blurb to bugtraq.
I would imagine that the average video producer has more video production skill in their pinky than the average hacker could even fathom. It's called distribution of labor, that's the reason why 90% of (western) society isn't out in the fields harvesting vegetables to keep society fed.
HaXXXor.com - Naked Chicks Teach You How To Ha
Is it me or the tracker is down? My download stopped at 99.8%, there's only one piece missing! I'm sure they did it on purpose!
All Hail Discordia. Hail Eris. Fnord.
The purpose of Bittorrent is to take the load off the server and its bandwidth. If I only get 50% of the file from peers and have to get the other from the server, then I have just saved the server bandwidth. Think about it... they can pump out files twice as large as they normally could. And that is with only 50% peering; I see a few completed ones on the tracker. Also, I always thought that it downloaded random chunks (i.e. not in a continuous, linear chunk download), but someone replied to you saying it didn't. I'm fairly sure it does, though. If it does, then you could still get the second half from incomplete seeds.
IANAL, but I play one on
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com
Maybe this will be more up your alley. Rather than watching wannabe nerds trying to be cool, you can just watch real nerds being real nerds.
The offical IRC chat is irc.abducted.us #thebroken if you want to talk about anything on the show. usually contains 20-50 people...
thermite is even easier its a fairly even mix of powdered iron oxide(rust) and aluminum. add a good ignition source( I have only used magnesium ribbon but they seem to be succesfull with a electric ignitor) and you have really quick evidence erasure, sulfuric acid would take a little bit to eat its way through the caseing.
I should add that their method is of poor design. I dont know about you but I would not like to be working on a laptop with that setup on it, on bad move and you lose a couple legs and your two best friends. I think maybe some form of saftey lock, or at least a timer would be needed, also a sealed enclosure for the thermite as it would shortout the laptop if you just poor it in the drivebay.
I'm through a NAT, you insensitive clod
-- When did Ignorance Become a Point of View?
You just have to look hard enough. Don't look during dinner, though.
It all goes downhill from first post
The internet went down for the count today, as a gigantic amount of bandwidth was allocated to the BitTorrenting of a 156MB video linked to on Slashdot. Film at 11.
This is not part of my post. It's my signature. I bet you're disappointed.
Eh - I'll take a swing at this one.
First off, I'd like to thank you for your work and extend that thanks to thebroken. It's been entertaining. There would probably be a lot less vitriol about if people maintained the perspective of this being entertainment first. However, this leads in to my intial point...
People lose their sense of entertainment when they are fed a constant stream of gross distortions of what they are familiar with. Keep in mind that you are following in the rather gigantic footsteps of Hollywood. And Hollywood has had a rather dismal track record when it comes to hackers (in any sense of the word).
Quite a few years ago, I had a hobby-job at my local ISP covering the evening shift. We ended up with a couple young entry-level helpdesk techs to train. During one of the evening's training the movie Hackers was mentioned. Us seasoned techies classified the movie as a comedy (albiet unintentional). One of our young charges listed it as inspirational.
Our young techie-in-training ended up following a continued pattern. She was really "in" to the "hacker scene". She liked the whole counter-culture / underground idea. She had her hair done in braids and wore counter-culture clothes. She had a certain facination with the concept of being feared by those outside her peer group. In short, she was all set to don the mantle of hacker as imaged by the movie Hackers.
Except for when it came to technical ability.
Our hacker-to-be had no real ability to pick up technical issues. Heck. She didn't even show any interest in actually learning more than the basics needed to do her job. She seemed to lack any resemblance of interest that would otherwise put her on a hacker's path.
But she could dress the part. Or at least, the part as defined in Hackers.
And this is likely the source of people's agrivation. Sure - this stuff is entertaining. But it is more often than not completely mistreated by Hollywood. And then to rub salt in to wound, one runs in to waves of wanna-bes that faithfully emulate that completely distorted image.
I understand how that could grate on one's nerves. Heck. I've seen it first hand. But I don't get upset over this kind of stuff. Even now that I find Hackers a little less funny all things considered.
Now that's something well written and well thought out. I'm going to keep this in mind.
HaXXXor.com - Naked Chicks Teach You How To Ha
..give that linksys a tap with a hammer. you'll be totally safe then.
mirror up at http://paducktions.net/downloads/misc/thebroken_3. avi