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Stardate 20011204.1337 (On Screen via long range sensors): A good troll is a work of art. The very best are the ones you can read and spot immediately, which nonetheless get a huge number of people irate. Adequacy.org posts one which is making the rounds today, and as I write this the site is very slow. But it's worth waiting for, not to mention reading the comments underneath it. (It describes ten signs to look for that indicate that your teenager is becoming a hacker -- and what to do about them.) It pulls all the right chains, and the response has been fantastic. For example: Wake up, moron.
Us "hackers" "descend upon Adequacy in droves whenever an article like this appears" because we are sick of the misinformation you seek to spread.
If someone would write a well-researched article, there would be nothing to argue about. HOWEVER, as it stands, this article is so completely nonsensical, illogical and downright WRONG that I cannot help but post a rebuttal.
-furious_wombat Hook, line aaand sinker! (discuss) The author's first response to the thread is equally a work of art: It hadn't occurred to me that real hackers might use this article as a source of hacking information. It was written to provide as much information as possible to concerned parents of computer hackers. Obviously, if I were thinking like a devious hacker, I would have known that they would try to turn something good into something evil, by reading this article for their own purposes.
Perhaps there should be a disclaimer at the top, stating that "by reading this article, you implicitly accept Jesus as your saviour". That would put a stop to any hacking, I'd say!
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