Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?


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Thats so funny :D

Glad i didnt have parents like that. If i had im sure ive have been tied up, gagged and deprived of light.

With all those trips to Computer stores, and questions about programming. Whats scary about it is there will be a parent whose like that. Feeeww least it wasnt mine

by Anonymous Reader on Sun Dec 2nd, 2001 at 11:26:47 AM PST

thank you for this list of advices!!!

i shall surrender myself to the police right away

by Anonymous Reader on Sat Jan 12th, 2002 at 02:12:28 PM PST

how could i have been so blind...i have been putting firewall after firewall on my system. when along along i have tryyng to keep myself out... yes now that i have read your article i realize that i am a hacker...I have reviewed my computer and discovered filthy programs running amuck everywhere...Flash. MP3's. DOS. BIOS. and the holy grail of hacking, yes its true I HAVE LINUX, i am so sorry and at this moment the police are on their way to put me away...THANK YOU for opening my unworthy eyes

by Huggles on Sun Dec 2nd, 2001 at 04:51:40 PM PST

Be careful of that last anonymous poster folks. I think he may be one of the many hackers I know from Tribes 2 virtual reality. If you reply to any of his messages, he will be able to hack your computer using a virus he developed. Trust me, as someone who has admitted to herself that she has a problem.

And my favorite of the first comments page:
by Anonymous Reader on Sun Dec 2nd, 2001 at 05:54:37 PM PST

First of all I would like to make an apology to your kids on the behalf of the human race that they have such poor parents. This sort of ultra-conservative self-serving bull**** would make me vomit if I wasn't laughing so hard.

I had my mom, a technological neophyte read these article. She knows little about computers, but even she found some of your points, especially those about Quake, a faster ISP and AMD highly comical.

At first I thought that this article was a joke, but after reading the comments below, I'm not so sure, and I'm frankly a bit frightened at the blind hostility to technology that many of you seem to exhibit.

In fact, many define hacker as a person who merely looks into software code to see how it works with no malicious intent. All they have is a desire to figure out how stuff works and in some cases, improve it.

Perhaps the informative posts here have informed the confused that this article has only comedic value and is frighteningly inaccurate. If not, I fear for our future.

"and Peter betrayed the principles we tried to encourage in him, when he refused point blank to " click that betrayed link, i shat myself when i read that.. the comments are priceless too ->

"I was inclined to laugh when I started reading, but then I thought 'what if this guy is for real, I can't believe there are still such narrow minded and ****-witted idiots walking the Earth!'"

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