NYT Discovers Internet's Wild Side: IRC

maztec writes "The New York Times (free soul-sucking registration required) published an article today entitled The Internet's Wilder Side. Apparently, according to the article, 'the Internet has come to resemble a pleasant, well-policed suburb , [but] a little-known neighborhood known as Internet Relay Chat remains the Wild West.' In essence the article concerns itself with how IRC is the breeding ground of all the Internet's Evils, from animal pornography and illegal file sharing to virus making and computer cracking, it all starts here. I'd continue pointing out interesting quotes, but that'd be a waste. Go read it yourself. And if you're on IRC, remember, you're evil. Even if you're one of those do-gooders who uses Mozilla, LFS, or FreeNode servers for software development."

Comments

Re:God forbid

[LittleDan]

This is what I hate about slashdot: the rampant agism. Everyone thinks that a computer user who's between the ages of 12 and 15 is automatically a script kiddie. That is just completely false. I don't know the first thing about being a script kiddie, only about programming and teaching people to program (when it comes to computers, that is). This is really annoying how everyone prejudices people like me (I'm 14) to be arrogant, stupid crackers.

Daniel Ehrenberg, aka LittleDan

If NYT Registration is Bad, Why Isn't Slashdot's??

[reallocate]

>>"....(free soul-sucking registration required)"

Why is every story Slashdot steals from the New York Times prefaced with the same smarmy parenthetical dig about registration? Why no similar slaps at Slashdot's very own registration?

I registered with the NYT a long time ago. Guess what? Nothing bad happened.

Re:God forbid

[taernim]

Yeah. Those crazy teens and their hacking of that Gibson... Poor, poor Balky.... ;)