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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. The story doesn't pass the lameness filter by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mention of Law +1 point - damn lawyers
    Mention of intellectual property +1 point - imaginary, mindless term
    Mention of Superhacker +1.5 points - popular usage of "hacker", plus a super tackled on it, also overloading Superuser - let me scream bloody murder k?
    Mention of software and media stealing +1 point - you don't steal software and media
    Mention of "The gist is that we need to start to police our rhetoric" +1 point - after overloading and misusing a lot of terms it is just hypocritical.

    Final score: 5.5 points out of the needed 4,

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  2. Re:You punctuated incorrectly... by inode_buddha · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your punctuation, spelling, and grammar isn't much better. Hint, if you want to be a good writer then be a good reader. As for the girls, well, I just dunno.

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  3. Re:Myth? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Naw dude - you got pwnt.