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From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002

posted July 04, 2003 09:22 PM         

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I found this interesting. No formal warning issued from Homeland Security tho.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/03/hacker.warnings.ap/index.html

Do you think it`s probable or just smoke?

juniperb

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posted July 05, 2003 12:22 AM         

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Definate, not probable.

But I do not think LindaLand is on the list.

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posted July 05, 2003 04:36 AM         

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These geeks need girlfriends.

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posted July 05, 2003 05:12 AM         

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Now, Randall, some of them may need boyfriends!

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From: west coast, yummy rain forest, canada
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posted July 05, 2003 08:13 AM         

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here here

i was a bit of a hacker once, but not a malicious one. i knew how to do stuff but i didnt do stuff to anyone, just sorta learned it, never used it. and im a girl

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From: Blue Star Kachina
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posted July 05, 2003 08:15 AM         

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Or get a job

I just don`t understand hacking, virus`s et al. To me it`s the same as stealing,breaking and entering and pure malice. What makes these folks tick?

juniperb

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posted July 05, 2003 08:18 AM         

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why on earth would the dept of homeland security get involved? there was nothing mentioned about terrorism. i really dont like this dept, it has been pretty useless imho and all it seems to do is make people paranoid of being attacked. it seems to me to be very much a big brother type of institution. but then again, i dont know. im living in happy canadian bliss.

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posted July 05, 2003 08:20 AM         

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i agree with you juni, i dont get hackers either, i mean the malicious ones. some have done things that are for the common good... but the ones that just run around wrecking peoples webpages are just morons imo. just another way for a little person to feel like a big dude/tte.

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From: Blue Star Kachina
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posted July 06, 2003 08:43 AM         

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Heard anything yet?

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posted July 06, 2003 08:50 AM           

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Actually hackers are rather important - any idea about how insecure most systems would be without these people looking for holes in them?

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From: Blue Star Kachina
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posted July 06, 2003 09:02 AM         

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Wevil, good point ... guess theres a rotton apple in every barrel.

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posted July 06, 2003 09:25 AM         

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With a lot of the hackers it's the challenge of being able to get into someone else's system. I don't think many of them are really malicious, I think they just lack social skills and have too much time on their hands.

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posted July 06, 2003 04:30 PM         

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well, having been involved in the hacking culture... i can say that most are not noble at all. i know a lot of hackers who do their thing in ways that arent malicious. but there are 25 malicious hackers for every 'responsible' hacker. the malicious ones are the idiots who just have to strike out at society, and dont respect anyone. they are the ones that make the viruses that will destroy your hard drive, and things of that nature. they do things just to ruin peoples things. those are the kind that i cannot stand. i have been hacked once, long ago. i will not even describe what was done to me, because it was absolutely disturbing. my computer was taken over and the most vile pictures were showing up on my screen among other things... i wont say any further.

ive seen both sides of the net. ive seen the good, and the not good at all. youd be shocked and horrified. theres some sick people out there.

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posted July 07, 2003 02:50 AM         

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=Tech&cat=Hackers_and_Crackers

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