Inventor of Proxy Firewall Blames Hackers 742
An anonymous reader writes "SecurityFocus published an interview with Marcus Ranum, the inventor of the proxy firewall. It's an interesting reading, and the end is even better:
Truly, the only people who deserve a complete helping of blame are the
hackers. Let's not forget that they're the ones doing this to us. They're the
ones who are annoying an entire planet. They're the ones who are costing us
billions of dollars a year to secure our systems against them. They're the
ones who place their desire for fun ahead of everyone on earth's desire for
peace and the right to privacy."
its the hackers alright! (Score:3, Funny)
Blame Canada (Score:3, Funny)
let's not forget (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't I just read the Onion? (Score:4, Funny)
Is it just me or does this sound like a Onion story?
Lord of the Walls (Score:3, Funny)
*gollum, gollum*
Re:Blame Canada (Score:3, Funny)
Re:He means crackers right? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:and interestingly enough... (Score:4, Funny)
In a related story (Score:3, Funny)
You mean deviants right? (Score:3, Funny)
homosexual => deviant
closet-case => priest
Yeah, go on. Mod me -1. I've got Karma to burn, and if you're so easily offended, perhaps you should turn your computer off. This is a humorous post to demonstrate that words change over time and the OP should learn to deal with it or move to France (where they have a department to try to keep the language pure).
Re:its the hackers alright! (Score:5, Funny)
What about the guy who broke into my computer, erased my copy of Windows and installed Fedora Core in its place?
I suspect he was a Red Hat hacker, personally...
Re:Article is not particularly insightful, really (Score:2, Funny)
I often go out and leave all the doors open and piles of money lying around and it's amazing how few people are sympathetic when someone steals all my stuff.
Re:Hacker Justification (Score:2, Funny)