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Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-praise-for-you dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Blaming the victim? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here I was hoping to go a week reading Slashdot without hearing any feminist rhetoric...

    'Blame the Victim' - if your password is 'password' what do you expect...

    Waiting for the obligatory feminist - 'Don't teach me to use good passwords, teach "hackers" not to break into my accounts!'

    lol