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Is the phrase "Windows Opcodes" (from the article) a subtle troll on the part of "k" or a journalistic goof? I'm no programmer by any stretch, but that phrase jumped out at me as phony. I know there are system calls for operating systems, and opcodes are processor instructions, so this use of the term raised my b.s. meter a notch.
Since the girl is a person and not a thing, it should be "... girl who hacked hbgary". r11t copied the mistake from Forbes-- How do national magazines make grammatical errors like this? Don't these people have editors who at least earned a passing grade in middle school English?
If you're going to pick a fake identity would you pick one that would get you attention like this? Seems like a fake identity but not sure it's the best one.
Each night she wipes every one of her web accounts and deletes every email in her inbox. She has no physical hard drive and boots her computer from a microSD card. “I could hide this card anywhere or chew into a million pieces in a few seconds,” she says by e-mail. She keeps her operating system on a USB stick and uses a virtual machine (VM) to carry out her online shenanigans. And people call me paranoid. :)
>Each night she wipes every one of her web accounts and deletes every email in her inbox ... If that is true, online account operators, email providers could link this type of behavior to one of their members quite quickly.
For 5+ years, I've been downloading my email with fetchmail, which deletes the message on the server. Once a minute. I don't like the thought of my emails sitting in the cloud for too long.
Is the phrase "Windows Opcodes" (from the article) a subtle troll on the part of "k" or a journalistic goof? I'm no programmer by any stretch, but that phrase jumped out at me as phony. I know there are system calls for operating systems, and opcodes are processor instructions, so this use of the term raised my b.s. meter a notch.
It could be something an editor slipped in there to "punch up" the tech jargon, for all we know.
Since the girl is a person and not a thing, it should be "... girl who hacked hbgary". r11t copied the mistake from Forbes-- How do national magazines make grammatical errors like this? Don't these people have editors who at least earned a passing grade in middle school English?
1) usage is disputed at a level beyond middle school English.
2) "that" is often preferred for restrictive clauses.
Is the phrase "Windows Opcodes" (from the article) a subtle troll on the part of "k" or a journalistic goof? I'm no programmer by any stretch, but that phrase jumped out at me as phony. I know there are system calls for operating systems, and opcodes are processor instructions, so this use of the term raised my b.s. meter a notch.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it reeks of fabrication. It's probably some geek living out their alter ego or something.
Though getting it into Forbes is quite brilliant especially if it all revolves around a real person.
Each night she wipes every one of her web accounts and deletes every email in her inbox. She has no physical hard drive and boots her computer from a microSD card. “I could hide this card anywhere or chew into a million pieces in a few seconds,” she says by e-mail. She keeps her operating system on a USB stick and uses a virtual machine (VM) to carry out her online shenanigans. And people call me paranoid. :)
I've used FDE for many years simply out of precaution against theft.