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Snoop Dogg Joins the War On Cybercrime
wiredmikey writes "Think you can bust out some silly fresh rhymes on the subjects of hacking, identity theft and computer viruses? In a somewhat untraditional partnership, Snoop Dogg and Symantec's Norton want you to show off your their lyrical skills on the subject of cybercrime and enter the 'Hack is Wack' cybercrime rap contest. If you have the skills and bust out the phattest rap, you'll receive round trip airfare for two to Los Angeles along with two days and two nights' hotel stay to meet with Snoop's management, learn more about his business. You'll also get two tickets to a Snoop Dogg concert and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011."
You'll also get two tickets to a Snoop Dogg concert and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011.
Well, that one's too easy...
and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011
"Pimped out" with Norton...is that like a hooker with free syphilis on the side?
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
At least it wasn't the Insane Clown Posse....
...should be added to the list of cybercrimes.
I see a cat named Snoop
Says to Hack is Whack
Well WTF he know
'bout anything like dat?
Did you ever wake up in the morning, with a Zombie Woof behind your eyes? -- FZ
...than it is to exit your Death Row Records contract.
Couldn't they have just contacted any of the neumerous Nerdcore rappers out there, and been done with it. I know G4 used YTCracker and MC Frontalot in some of their spots.
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First Sookie, now this? What next, a duet with Justin Bieber?
That saw the headline as Snoop Dog joints the war on cybercrime... WHAT snoop dog is fighting cybercrime with joints...count me IN. picks mind out of the gutter
"We are just a war away from Amerikastan. When god vs god the undoing of man." Dave Mustaine
...you get three nights in LA and a meeting with Snoop himself!
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How we see prostitutes as shameful, prostitution as sad, yet pimps as the gold standard of cool.
A laptop "pimped out" with Norton? WTF?
Bitch BETTER have my query!
THL phish sticks
Snoop has finally jumped the shark. Looking at the trajectory of his career, it's not really surprising. I'm just glad his shark is Norton/Symantec instead of some brand of adult disposable undergarments.
I need trepanation like I need a hole in the head.
a hack, or at least one fast approaching
Hey Snoop, MC Lars, MC Chris, MC Frontalot, and a whole slew of other nerdcore, laptop, geek lyricists beat you to rapping about hacking a long time ago. The funny thing? They disagree with you. Acoording to them, Hack ain't whack but got them to the stop of the intellectual stack (okay, there's a reason I'm not a rapper). The point is, you're late to the tech. rap show.
This reminds me of MC Lars' "We've Arrived."
Motorcycles, Robots, Space Gossip and More!
...will never be the sizame.
He's going to backtrizzle your emizzles and contact the cybercizzles. If you pirated his trizzles, you don' gizzled.
"Don't Copy That Floppy" Part 2! It was a stupid idea then, and it hasn't improved with age.
Also, Snoop Dogg has just signed his name to the roster of formerly cool stars embarrassing themselves by remaining in the public eye long past their sell-by date. Doing this kind of lame public (dis)service crap is like wearing a neon sign saying "IRRELEVANT" in glowing foot-high letters.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011
Which, if you have any sense, you will promptly uninstall.
-- Let us endeavor so to live that when we pass even the undertaker shall be sorry. -- M. Twain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
Just incase anyone missed it.
enter your song here
In a somewhat untraditional partnership, Snoop Dogg and Symantec's Norton want you
A company hiring a celebrity to get its fans to buy their product is nothing new. Neither are slashvertisements.
You can't take the sky from me...
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, unless it's infected with Norton Internet Security.
For drizzle.
"The pie shall be cut in half and each man shall receive.....death. I'll eat the pie."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
In general, it is safe and legal to kill your children. -- POSIX Programmer's Guide
Don't be too hard on the guy. Snoop Dogg is something of a victim of his own success here. What's he going to do to follow up cameos in a Kate Perry video, and doing publicity stunts to promote Facebook games? When the bar's set that high, you've really got to hustle for opportunities. And don't think he can just appear in some computer ad, either, because his fellow gangsta rapper Dr. Dre is already doing HP ads. No, he's really got to go all out, and find something totally square to promote for cash. Stay in school is a bit played out, and "don't do drugs" is out of the question, but this is a perfect opportunity. Hey kids, don't break into computers! Your pal Snoopy wouldn't!
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
i have a feeling this marketing ploy will function as good as anything else from norton.
I think you meant "show off them ya lyrical skills," brud.
I really hate that hackers are blamed for every crime involving a computer. At least so it seems. We are talking less than 5% of all hackers do what they do for destruction or selfish means. I definitely will not promote Norton's products now. HACKING IS NOT A CRIME.
...is better in freestyle form.
http://searchenginerapbattle.com/
Free Norton products for life!
Damn sell out.. Snoop got enough Cash.. why sell out?!
Can I get that ticket changed to AWAY from LA, Snoop Dog, and all this nonsense?
Deltron 3030 - "Virus" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijPE7fe4XTg
Shouldn't that be "crack is whack"?
Everywhere.
Didn't read TFA but here is the dark side.
Please see: http://www.last.fm/music/Deltron+3030/_/Virus
Norton get it off! what a sell out we should make a rap video about how bad Norton is and enter that.
When Elvis helped Nixon with the war on Drugs?
Alright Slashdot... LETS DO IT http://www.hackiswack.com/
Variations should include "Ghost ride the laptop", "Use it slow" and "Drop it like it's a bot". And I thought "Bros icing bros" was a ridiculous marketing campaign.
Bow before me, for I am root.
would anyone ever have guessed Snoop would sell out so hard? Everyone mellows with age but I thought he'd sold out completely when he appeared on a Katy Perry tune. Now he's pimpin Norton software? "Hack is wack?" Really?
Next thing he's gonna be doing infomercials for the Snooptisserie Oven.
Just out of interest, does someone like this get that miniscule 0.2% cut of the money pie when a song sells, or has he somehow escaped the clutches of the publisher?
Why OpalCalc is the best Windows calc
4 tickets to Snoop Dog + 2 copies of Norton.
http://slashdot.org/~GuyFawkes/journal
I am positive that DualCore could out rap snoop on the subject of hacking.
Hey, I was only kidding. You don't have to MOD me "Troll" . . . again . . . .
And so continues the battle between Eminem, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg to see who can lose the most street cred in the least amount of time.
Freedom is drinking a beer in the park when you're supposed to be at work.
If competing companies can enter, Kaspersky should submit their Packin' the K rap. I'm sure that would make for great publicity.
Is that by winning this contest I, transversely, will be required to spend the 2 days for "vacation" deleting all traces of the broken software that will be included with the laptop??? This doesn't sound like a prize to me...
make a rap about how norton F* up there pc and how much pain it was to get it fixed. Even better if you upload that to www.HackIsWack.com.
Look where it got Snoop...
Anybody think of Nice Report by SophSec that won awards at Defcon a couple of years ago?
http://www.sophsec.com/downloads/nice_report.mp3
Why would any geek do this? What? Do geeks have nothing better to do with their lives than sit around and smoke doobies like a rapper?
Oh... wait..... right. :P
http://www.gizoogle.com/
I'm up in windows, browsing some site.
Explorer froze up, dang, shit ain't right!
My files get renamed to penut-butta.gif
And wallpaper's lookin like a dog with a splif
Camera comes on and what do I get?
Seems I've entered a cam-roulette!
The virus don't stop, it's threat level is wack
Suddenly there's Norton and he's got my back.
Ten minutes later everything's a'ight
It's good to know I can sleep tonight.
(All rhymes property of teh mixmasta 'e'...Theft = instant lawsuit, biatch.)
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
The average rating on each of the songs on the hackiswack.com site is -2,000,000,000. :D
Blee-otch.
"Whack"?
Is there a duck in here?
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Yo listen, this is my rap about norton kinda retarded like billy bob thornton they're en garde but not on the avante heuristically idiotic without the savant you got a hole in your network security got NIS and AV to give it a DP
He must be smokin' more than just the ganja now.
He's doing a liquor-bottle signing at a state-owned Wine and Spirits store in Philadelphia soon. WTF?
... I know that you're out there, watching over us like some kind of lyrical nerdcore angels.
Time to autotune Snoop Dogg talking about this project...
"Bringin' the attention level up"
'Sho nuff!
"A lot of people don't even realize this is happening"
What about George? He chronicles tech problems he's havening.
"We come together and join forces to fight this"
Are you going to go to Russia and dump crackers in an abyss?
"When my team come after you we're gonna git you"
Get all up ins your binary code, and zero you out, foo !
"To see what it takes to be Snoop Dogg"
I'll know if I can see it through this Chronically hazy fog!
"To put them in the circle with my people"
Are we playing duck duck goose, or ring around the steeple?
"Hopefully it'll rub off on them"
Just as long as no charges stick of possessing illegal chem!
"The secret to longevity is fun"
What about those SPAMers who just want to supersize your Love Gun?
"I love being a leader"
Well, I'll bet that part is true...
"I love owning"
Fo' processor sizzle, Snoop, yeah, me too!
coding is life
I was totally going to hack the gibson, but Snoop Dogg is my nizzle, and he's taught me that hacking is wrizong.
Excuse me, I think I have a church sermon to attend now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software)
Recall the feds dream of malware with a deal "to ensure their anti-virus software would not detect the program"
I guess the music is like "White House Office of National Drug Control Policy" with anti drug messages in your fav tv dramas.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs
Now you get a musical propaganda blast to install Norton and fight "cyber crime"
Whats next a track on p2p, the joys of an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I mean I get The Snoop part, he wants the money. How exactly does this get us to want to use that Norton crap though? We JUST finished celebrating that its not on 100% of Windows OEM PC's. If everyone getting a free year didn't seal the deal, you can't sell your product. Its called failure.
"They confiscated everything, even the stuff we didn't steal!"
Norton is SOOO much more creditable with Snoop on board. Of course if you smoke 15 joints a day, a system with Norton installed on it might still seem fast to you.
What exactly *is* cybercrime? I really don't see how spamming bits at a machine can be viewed illegal, or even harmful. If the machine was for some reason vulnerable to this, is that my fault?
You can snoop Snoop Dogg!
It seems that this is Norton's fall-back plan, to make up for their miserably pathetic product.
And where's MC Hawking when we need him?
- T
Snoop done caught himself a virus
Swapn' filez o' miley cyrus.
And cuz he smoke da weed
Dat fool slapped Norton on da machine.
Now his apps be always hang'n,
His response time's f*k'n lagg'n,
and those pop-ups keep on nagg'n
Now I don't wanna be a snitch
but Norton got's a glitch.
An Norton played ol' Snoop for a sucker
Cause dat Norton is a punk motha f*ker!
One: I'm a firm follower of the mindset that "crap" has a silent "c". Snoop Dog? No thanks.
Two: Norton IS 2011? I've had less trouble uninstalling the viruses it didn't protect the computers from. I'll pass.
Three: I fscking HATE, HATE, HATE! laptops. I don't care what fscking color or bling you put on them or in them, it's still a fscking proprietary, heat-generating, vent blocking, power supply (and plugs/jacks) breaking POS.
-Ahem-
Now, if it were Sir Mix-a-lot and an Alienware desktop/tower with Linux, hell, I'm in...
uninstall Norton Internet Security 2011.
Yeah, times changed about when Snoop Dogg moved from Long Beach to live on top of a high hill in Diamond Bar. See any correlation? Any at all?
You can't be ahead of the curve, if you're stuck in a loop.
Yo dawg,
I is getting all platypus wit da anti-vi-ruse
I used to sell crack to da wack,
but now I'm back to stab some hack in da back.
selling you trash FO da mass which gets all slow on ya ass.
Dre 2020.
Here be signatures
Symantec and Snoop Dogg are birds of a feather.
Running any Symantec software on your machine makes it sluggish, unresponsive and causes it to behave obnoxiously.
Listening to Snoop Dogg does the same to people.
The months are just too short. I can count the number of days on one hand.
It's all about the pentiums
bash.org
And.. have to say... Snoop dogg? Really? Even Rick Ashley would be better..
It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
Snoop is only into real crime. All that modern virtual crime don't get nobody shot.
Can we get our money back if we do not want Norton Internet Security and Windows on the laptop? Oh, and maybe I want money instead of the Snoop Dogg tickets too please. The plane tickets sound good though, as long as I can stay in the hotel quietly and somebody can keep Snoop dogg's staff out of my way.
The worlds greatest pretend Gangsta raper against Cybercrime ..
>and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011.
Having Norton on your laptop is not "pimped out" unless you mean by being bent over forwards and having something being put into you, and someone else raking the cash....then I would agree.....funny these days how you get a rapper along side your PR department, and all of a sudden you think you have a right to use the words "pimped out" and "dawg" with your product. Let's just say before pimped out, I would consider the words cursed, pre-wrecked, diminished,
destroyed or even bricked as possible first alternatives....
"Deltron 3030 - Virus"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijPE7fe4XTg
4 days and 4 nights?
4 tickets to the concert?
"... and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011."
Be still, my beating heart!
The best part is their selection of twitter posts. They must just search for "snoop or norton" and display whatever comes back without doing any filtering. There were some pretty offensive tweets already.
they obviously have never heard of ytccracker
Did anyone else think of that music video "Don't Copy that Floppy"?
Snoop dogg's secret to sucess is fun. Having fun, everything he does has to be fun, he does everything to have fun. What's his definition of fun? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6TUhx2wX0M
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If I won, first thing I would do right off the bat would be to uninstall Norton from the laptop. It's second nature to immediately uninstall Norton or McAfee after working as an IT guy for all these years.
Be a gangster again! Call women bitches. Drink 40's excessively. Smoke weed without caring. Please. Do it for the children.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.