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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 4:08 pm
by Seraph Antaine
Damned fine analogy, Jack. Still, though, I think we should stop alienating the hackers, and beat them up.
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 10:38 pm
by JaNell
Seraph Antaine wrote:Damned fine analogy, Jack. Still, though, I think we should stop alienating the hackers, and beat them up.
I'm in.

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:02 am
by iblis
karmakaze wrote:very rarely does any hardware damage stem from a virus, and if it does, its because the computer sucks and was going to die soon anyway.
There are a few ways to render a hard drive unbootable, unable to retain data, or both; and a portion of those are very simple to pull off. Simple enough that a script kid could just cut/paste the lines to do so, without ever knowing
how it does what it does, which is of course how most script kiddies operate.
I personally can't understand that mindset; if I'm going to do something, malicious
or benign, by golly I want to know how I'm doing it¹!
Thankfully, as often as not the kind of people who write these malicious code don't think about such things; that, or they lack the patience and/or intelligence to go poking around the manuals for such information.
¹ Not that I'd ever do anything malicious.
I just like to know how. For about the same reason why I read the backs of cereal boxes; prior to reading, I didn't know what it said. Now I do.