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The Myth of the Superhacker
mlimber writes "University of Colorado Law School professor Paul Ohm, a specialist in computer crime law, criminal procedure, intellectual property, and information privacy, writes about the excessive fretting over the Superhacker (or Superuser, as Ohm calls him), who steals identities, software, and media and sows chaos with viruses etc., and how the fear of these powerful users inordinately shapes laws and policy related to privacy and digital rights."
root!
There are no super hackers out there.
Disregard that, I suck cocks.
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The solution to super hackers is simple, hot women need to take one for the team and date some nerds, this way their not in their parents basement but our with a real live girl. Girls on the plus side you can walk all over them and get anything you want.
Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
I just came from a meeting on this very topic. The thing I came away from this meeting is that the real fear is that the Superhacker works for you. Or worse yet, you let him go yesterday. O. M. G.
I know the Superhacker exists... because he's me. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go back to my 3D virtual reality interface, hop on my lightcycle, and infect the alien mainframe with the Michaelangelo virus. If you need me, I'm at IP address 24.75.345.200.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
The biggest trick the period ever pulled was convincing you it doesn't exist.
You're punctuation is wrong. You wrote:
Girls on the plus side you can walk all over them and get anything you want.
What you meant to write:
Girls (on the plus side), you can walk all over them and get anything you want.
I recently suggested to my boss that instead of mailing me web pages that he wants me to look at, he mail me links to the web pages, but I don't think that I got through to him.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Law School professor Paul Ohm
I wonder if he teaches Ohm's Law?
It's not just the incompetent that think that way, I'd go so far as to say a vast majority of computer-interested people do. Which is more entertaining to read, and think about: Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent, with its stories of master programmers writing the best rootkits ever made over the course of two weeks to install on the systems they're about to root with their 0days for the purpose of bouncing their traffic around the internet while they use IPv6 to get around firewalls on Japanese military computers as a test to find out if they're worthy to hack the computers of several African banks for a mysterious man named Knuth in conjunction with a phreak gaining access to an African telephone switch by use of a stolen cell phone so that Knuth can intercept the phone calls of an enemy while a third hacker, who happens to be a very attractive female drunk and recently returned from shagging a random good-looking but smart computer nerd she met at the club while on Ecstasy, uses steganography software to send a message across the globe to a chick she met a while back (who is also a good-looking female computer nerd), all this happening at the same time a 16-year-old college sophomore (with a hot, nerdy asian girlfriend) is pulling a sweet hack involving duct-taping a laptop to the back of a computer cabimet and using it to intercept all traffic to a lab computer for the purpose of concealing his SSN-stealing activities on the school's network so that Knuth can sufficiently conceal his identity for his trip to South America where he'll live comfortably off the interest for the rest of his life, free from any government oppression................ or a study showing that almost all botnets are built using one of two common worms?
People want something to aspire to, and the idea of the existence of a superhacker controlling every aspect of the internet at a moment's notice is pretty good at taking up brain space.
ResidntGeek
ROFL!
"Girls on the plus side you can walk all over them and get anything you want."
You may want to define where that comma should go, or else you're gonna have some angry plus-size girls after you!
I can't imagine where people get all these ideas about "super hackers" and the like. Now where are my VR goggles? I need to hack a Cray using this pay phone down the street...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
"My high school still has absolutely zero knowledge of some of the hacks I pulled, and they never will know."
FYI Andrew Matecha of Vancouver BC, there is enough information on your band's website and MySpace page to identify you and figure out which school you committed your crimes against. Not that I care, but you might want to think about that before you brag about illegal activity you've participated in.
> The biggest trick the Catholic church ever pulled was convincing the world he does.
I can understand doubts about the existence of a god, but this? You mean that after witnessing Windows and the RIAA you still don't believe in the existence of Evil Design? They are way too evil to have happened by chance.
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Mod parent up!
Not only is he making a good point, but he did so with a single 1 paragraph-long sentence.
If you are about to mod me down, keep in mind that this post was most likely sarcastic.
psh! A "superhacker" wouldn't politely ask for gas money until next payday...he'd steal her credit card info, and install spyware on her computer! ;D
That is why they can't get dates.
See:
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http://theprogrammingblog.com/jokes/things-comput
ROFL
That would make a cool movie. It could star Angelina Jolie and Harrison Ford. You need to throw in some ipods though.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
maybe, but if they did you sure wouldn't want them walking all over you
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
The biggest trick Batman ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist
And spring loaded cell phones. Don't forget that spring loaded cells!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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I was about to say 13256278887989457651018865901401704640, but it appears this number is private property.