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The Myth of the Superhacker

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the scourge-of-the-internet dept.

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."

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  1. Re:From 'The Usual Suspects' by Logic+and+Reason · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually that quote originally comes from the French poet Baudelaire in the 1864 short story "Le Joueur généreux." The Usual Suspects just popularized it.

  2. Re:I know the Superhacker exists... by barrkel · · Score: 5, Informative

    IPv4 address is a 32-bit integer. Typical notation is in base-256, but you can use other bases.

    E.g. on my machine:

    ping 66.102.7.104

    is equivalent to:

    ping 1113982824

    Similarly, 24.75.345.200 is actually this address:

    PING 407656904 (24.76.89.200): 56 data bytes