NY Times On Spam Zombies 166
A discreetly valorous slashdotter writes "The NY Times is featuring a story about the growing armies of spam zombies. It focuses on New Jersey teen spammer Jasmine Singh. Choice quote: 'Hacking in its purest form is not about compensation or about wrecking a Web site. Hacking in its pure form is to show what you can do.'"
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Holding systems hostage... (Score:3, Informative)
Where would they send the money? This is like a kidnapping scheme. There is far too much involved when you actually want something back from the person you commit the crime against. You would think they would be easier to catch.
That's exactly right... (Score:3, Informative)
Cracking is about breaking into a system. It might require some hacking, but it can also be done by script kiddies.
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Re:That's exactly right... (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, wikipedia has a pretty damn good entry [wikipedia.org] for the word.
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Re:Irregardless, it's not like anyone cares (Score:2, Informative)
You don't sound like a 15-year old who slept through elementary school English class, which in turn gains the respect of other people, which in turn helps you to do a lot of things, among others, get a job.
Other people understand what you mean. It is true that in most cases it is fairly trivial to infer the meaning, but there are cases in which both the phrasing which was actually used and the phrasing which was intended form logical, sensible sentences. In this case, the meaning becomes ambiguous.
In answer to your question "Who cares?", many people do. Your professors, publishers, potential (and current) employers, people you do business with, just to name a few.