First Recorded Usage of "Hacker"
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First Recorded Usage of "Hacker"
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#3Wardialing is over 40 years old? Learn something new every day.
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#4Wardialing is over 40 years old? Learn something new every day.
Wierd, I thought war dialing (at least by hand) came about around the time of the Strowger Switch? I read somewhere (sorry, no link) that as telephones became popular people would ring numbers sequentially to see who was at the other end.
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#5"Hacker" is a bit like the term "witch" in the Wizard of Oz.
"Are you a good hacker, or a bad hacker?"
The techniques and thinking styles are the same, either way.
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#6"Hacker" is a bit like the term "witch" in the Wizard of Oz. "Are you a good hacker, or a bad hacker?" The techniques and thinking styles are the same, either way.
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#7It's like a disease endemic to us nerds. Honestly who looks at the word "hack" and thinks hey i'm gonna make a white hat form of this? An OS called GNU?? Linus was lucky he had a buddy in marketing to help him name the kernel otherwise we'd have something like the clusterfuck in gnome & kde packages.
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#8Also: First usage of a masculine pronoun when discussing hacking! Gotta protect 'the boys'.
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#9It's like a disease endemic to us nerds. Honestly who looks at the word "hack" and thinks hey i'm gonna make a white hat form of this? An OS called GNU?? Linus was lucky he had a buddy in marketing to help him name the kernel otherwise we'd have something like the clusterfuck in gnome & kde packages.
hahahah.
Exactly. Specifically, Linus' name for Linux was "Freax"
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#10Wardialing is over 40 years old? Learn something new every day.
It's unclear to me exactly what's going on, but
"'brute force techniques' - mass dialing until something 'interesting' is found"
Sounds an awful lot like war dialing. Not sure what was on the other side though and what got done.