Hacking

Many years from now, a child will look up at his father and ask him for a tale from his wild and untameable youth. The man, whose eyes will scream a life without regret, will chuckle quietly and pat him gently on the head.

Hackers could at least look something like this. And yes, the picture is from Spy Kids 4

“Well,” he will say, “There was this one time I drank all this Red Bull and stayed up all night and wrote this algorithm that made Twitter users’ accounts spam other users’ accounts with a message telling them there’s a really funny picture of them online and they should totally click it - and then they did and it sent it to all their friends!”

“Lol,” he will add, as the boy shakes his head and punches him in the knee cap. Hard.

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  • Audra Blue says:

    09:37pm | 22/09/11

    Huey, I believe bumpuffing is just rapidly puffing on a cigarette but not actually inhaling the smoke. Read more »

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    09:32pm | 22/09/11

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It is one of the great dangers of this new technological age that we are all potential victims of “computer hacking”.

We hacked Joe's computer and look what we found in the private folder

Computer hacking is an insidious and underhanded practice that infliltrates “computers”, which are like typewriters that you can play solitaire on.

The risks of hacking were brutally demonstrated in the 2007 documentary Die Hard 4.0, in which Bruce Willis spends two hours and eight minutes trying to send an email, only to give up and get someone from Generation Y to do it.

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  • Norm says:

    11:23am | 21/11/11

    Very true! Makes a change to see somenoe spell it out like that. Read more »

  • Sleepless says:

    06:46pm | 20/07/11

    “The problem is that once a rogue and uncontrollable foreign body enters even the most powerful organisation it can cause untold damage – although sadly this was discovered only after Andrew Wilkie was elected to Parliament.” You made me cry with that comment.  It’s a good thing that I’m not… Read more »

 

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