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1. Using same computer that connects via phone, wireless, etc and than using any email service. 2. Machine characteristics since they cannot get the machine ID they go for the next best digital finger print ..ie operator grammar/typos..cpu speed, ram size, etc. 3. Websites have visitor logs..the track back to you eventually gets fleshed out.
I think the Forbes article writer got played..
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?
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=girl+that,girl+wh...
Middle school English teachers love to invent simple rules of the language that don't reflect actual usage very well. The choice between "that" and "who" as relativisers is subtle, and the animacy constraint doesn't explain the facts of how people speak.
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?
Your complaint does not represent majority usage in English, let alone modern usage.
I've always known C was just a gateway to the dangerous stuff.
This could very likely be a carefully (and cleverly constructed) identity. This girl might not exist; but because we all really really want a 16 year old girl to be the hacker the discrepancies are glossed over (the art of a good lie is not giving too much detail and letting other people's imagination fill the gaps). On the other hand the personality strikes me strongly as female, so if it is an facade it is a very w…
Not to mention, it must be humiliating for HBGary to be thought of the world as hackable by a 16 year-old girl.
Basically, everyone is excited because she's a girl.
This story reminds me Hit-Girl and Big Daddy from Kick-Ass movie.
If the government is going after these people it should be for one reason only - to hire them. Maybe with this kind of talent working together we could find out where rogues like OBL are hiding.
If the government is going after these people it should be for one reason only - to hire them. Maybe with this kind of talent working together we could find out where rogues like OBL are hiding.
From http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php
Genre: Informal Female = 171 Male = 182 Difference = 11; 51.55% Verdict: Weak MALE
Weak emphasis could indicate European.
From http://bookblog.net/gender/analysis.php
Female Score: 94 Male Score: 133
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!