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Post by goldenkey »

dang wrote: post #614
callalex wrote: post #243

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This is an extremely insensitive time and place to troll. Shame on you.

Just FYI, I don't think the other user was trolling. HN has a certain number of commenters coming from (let's say) distressed points of view. One can sometimes guess at this from the comment history. I don't mean to single anyone out, just to say that it's a regular if not a common pattern. It's not always easy to find a compassionate way to handle it but I think it's important to try.

I wasn't trolling and no one needs to treat me extra compassionately. I can cope just fine with reality. It's most folks who deny reality in order to remain sane and low in stress.

The world has some primordial evils in it. Only when you fall into a honey pot of the state, will you understand the level of evil and malevolence that exists as part of rule, law, and order.

The death and destruction isn't contained in neat bows, it happens on US soil in disturbing ways.

I am not special in any regard, I just have seen more than most. Enjoy the ride and don't forget that most outlier statistics aren't anomalous accidents, they are symptoms of a process that is subtle.

Re: Kevin Mitnick has died

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Post by busyant »

neotek wrote: post #649
busyant wrote: post #606

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> The IT person easily figured out it was me and then tricked me into thinking I would be expelled within days. Similar. I wrote a program to emulate a the logon text on a PDP-11 terminal in high-school in the mid-80s and steal a bunch of student passwords. Didn't do anything with them. They were like "trophies." Nevertheless, the computer teacher found out and had mercy on me. He gave me a project to work on to help…

I did the same thing, only my program pretended to be a DOS-based Novell Netware login screen. It was just a simple QBASIC program (that's all that was available on the Computer Room machines) running under my own login, which would write usernames and passwords to a text file in my user directory. I figured that I'd harvest a few passwords until someone got frustrated enough to call for the IT admin, at which point…

> until someone got frustrated enough to call for the IT admin, at which point he would try to log in and reboot the PC when it failed, apparently "fixing" the problem and erasing any evidence of my dastardly crime.

This was precisely my logic as well.

> put me on an unorthodox path that completely changed my life.

Hopefully it was a happy path!

Re: Kevin Mitnick has died

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Post by samstave »

jrnichols wrote: post #632
samstave wrote: post #511

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I come from a long line of clinical/medical folks in my family - and me on the tech side of medicine... That said the following is me talking out my ass, but I have followed a very few number of pancreatic cases - jobs being one... and there is one anecdotal that I would hope people closer to such cases can chime into ; how much wine did these people drink (jobs was a prolific wine drinker) Im wondering if sulfates f…

> Im wondering if sulfates from wine are a major player. I work in healthcare in one of the wine capitals of the world, Napa County, CA. We do not have a higher rate of pancreatic cancer than anywhere else. It is average. If sulfates from wine were a factor, it is quite likely that we would have seen a higher rate of pancreatic cancer here. https://www.countyofnapa.org/DocumentCenter/View/11029/Main-...

No, its about breast cancer.

Re: Kevin Mitnick has died

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Post by dang »

goldenkey wrote: post #661
dang wrote: post #614

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just FYI, I don't think the other user was trolling. HN has a certain number of commenters coming from (let's say) distressed points of view. One can sometimes guess at this from the comment history. I don't mean to single anyone out, just to say that it's a regular if not a common pattern. It's not always easy to find a compassionate way to handle it but I think it's important to try.

I wasn't trolling and no one needs to treat me extra compassionately. I can cope just fine with reality. It's most folks who deny reality in order to remain sane and low in stress. The world has some primordial evils in it. Only when you fall into a honey pot of the state, will you understand the level of evil and malevolence that exists as part of rule, law, and order. The death and destruction isn't contained in ne…

I was talking about a different user.

Re: Kevin Mitnick has died

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Post by ianpenney »

ianpenney wrote: post #337

The hacker community needs a word akin to “Silent Key” - in the ham radio community - that means a contributor that’s passed on. Never met the guy but you’re damn right I know who he is. And I come from the middle of nowhere.

Update: had no idea Kevin was a ham. His licence got yanked. N6NHG SK.

https://twitter.com/kevinmitnick/status/551997777031340032

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