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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."
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
Well, "pimping out" a car tends to involve installing flashy and expensive crap that has no functional purpose, and serves only to make the car slower and mind-numblingly ugly. So it seems appropriate.
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.
Also, Snoop Dogg has just signed his name to the roster of formerly cool stars
Snoop Dog was cool? When did that happen?
... and then they built the supercollider.
1. you think 'Snoop' approached Symantec/Norton on this, rather than the other way around?
2. who?*
* spoken from the point of view of a marketing person.