Posted 27 August 2003 - 11:38 PM
The "I Hate Wayne Club" is in full effect, now that y'all got a tree house to hide in while you plot your evil schemes. For shame! I suppose I am all alone in my support for Wayne. *cries*
Hackers are generally pretty damn smart people. I can understand the political motives behind some of the hacking to make a statement (as horrible as it is because in the end, it's just a big mess that the peons have to clean up) and people like Kevin Mitnick who basically hacked to satisfy his intellectual curiosity and had no intention of using the info he had for any other purposes. He did not hack to take the piss, and he didn't hack w/malicious intent or to fuck up people's private property. It was the government that trumped up those charges in order to instill fear into the hearts of would-be hackers and people who think there's boogey-hackers ready to swipe every hard drive clean. On that note, though, I think most people who claim to be hackers do it just to take the piss. Seeing what crap my husband had to go through with his compnay being hit not once but twice, and seeing him put in 60+ hours of work last week because the hacking stalled production really pissed me right off. For the most part I view hacking like we've seen recently as a violation of private property. I don't look kindly to hacking computers with mal intent to stifle work production thereby making more work than necessary for a lot more people. To me, that kind of piss taking is no better than keying someone's car and smashing in it's windows.
be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle