Posts by jccampb

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More evidence of the "no lifers" who populate the computer industry

This will not stop until all of us (including and especially the media) starts reporting this kind of thing properly. To Wit; "the mentally and ethically deficient half-wit 'cracker' (who in his spare time surely molests small children and farm animals)" .... And then fill in your description of the social or criminal 'crime' in your 'article'. Every time I hear a 'news reporter' using the phrase "the daring robber" in the garbage that they spew and claim to be 'news' or even report it neutrally? I want to scream. None of this stuff is cute and it is because of being treated in this light? That it persists. After all it's just "ones and zeros' wot? Our industry has done a magnificent job of globally disassociating our populations from connecting actions to reality (Cause and effect). I've watched it going on now since the late '70's. If some prowler crept into yer own bedroom and pulled your wife's underwear out of the drawer "just to let you know he's cracked your bedroom security" you wouldn't find it amusing or blow it off ... would you? No, if you didn't didn't catch idiot doing it in person and shoot him, you'd be on to the police as soon as you found out. WHY do we thing this sort of invasive behavior is any different???

But Mozilla is releasing in the next iteration a blocker for the idiocy this twit is piddling with. jccampb

Lame Stuxnet worm 'full of errors', says security consultant

terminology

I understand that now we have legitimized screwing up other people's computers in the "cyber warfare" context but when there is any possibility that the malware creator is some private sector "Cracker" then they need to be described in proper concept, not romanticized. Sic: "the Daring burglar". If the same twit physically snuck into your own personal bedroom at night and just pulled all your wife's underwear out of the drawer to "let you know he'd been there." you wouldn't describe his behavior as "daring" would you?

Crackers, need to be cast in the same light. "The no-life half-wit cracker who in his spare time obviously sexually molests small children and pets broke into ..... XYZ corp.", etc. Journalists (even technical Journalists) can help cast such slime as these in proper light instead of making them into -shudder- folk "heroes".

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