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Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers
First time accepted submitter Geste writes "Diane McWhorter pleads in this NYT Op-Ed piece that it's time to stop glorifying hackers. Among other things she rails against providers' tendencies to 'blame the victim' with advice on improved password discipline. Interesting, but what lesson are we to learn from someone who emails lists of passwords to herself?"
And yea, that's spelled right. In all 57 states.
Goddammit, you stole the thunder out of so many potentially good posts, fast-acting AC.
Don't teach users not to run mysterious .exe files from suspicious people without antivirus software! Teach scammers not to scam!
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Things I learned in reading that blabbering op-ed.
Earthlink is still alive. (shocking, but meh...)
Author likely uses same password for multiple publically known email accounts. (lacks even the least amount of personal information security training)
Seems to think Gawker is a respected, um, network. (HAHAHA!)
Thinks pepole hacking celebrity accounts or high-profile public figures is equivalent to what Snowden and similar whistleblowers do, at least as popularity is concerned. (Err...)
Mentions term 'white hat' like it's a mythical unicorn. (turtles all the way down....)
This is like a nail beutician, commenting on the security of a cars CAN bus. I want my 5 minutes back!
Come on now, no one glorifies clowns.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
I'm a hacker,
I'm a snacker,
I'm a mid-night wacker.
I get my lovin' on the net.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
That's because they think outside the box.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
glorifying actors, sports figures, politicians, generals, soldiers, writers, artists, architects, Canadians, cooks, race car drivers, the old, children, dogs, accountants, spies, computer programmers, cowboys, drug smugglers, and the disabled.
So long as we still glorify the Hypnotoad, I'm cool with that.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar