Quote: Marc P @ September 12 2008, 10:05 PM BSTStick it in here, if finck can't get the punch in a couple of goes, no one can.
Skål!
CERN Page 20
So two wrongs do make a right? 
Quote: DaButt @ September 12 2008, 9:48 PM BSTNice one, but shouldn't it have been posted in the contraception thread?
We don't have that brand here.
Quote: Griff @ September 12 2008, 10:17 PM BSTI guess I'm saying if you're going to fret about hackers causing Armageddon, there are probably scarier things to worry about than CERN.
Knock out the electricity grid, online banking, water pumping stations and telephone networks and watch the fun begin. And it can all be done from a teenager's computer in the middle of Mongolia or somewhere.
No network is ever more than a stolen/guessed password away from bad, bad things.
Quote: DaButt @ September 12 2008, 10:08 PM BSTdropped a bunch of cheap USB thumb drives...
I thought that you were about to say that they contained the personal details of millions of members of the British public.
Quote: Griff @ September 12 2008, 10:09 PM BSTWell, CERN isn't the only potentially dangerous system to get hacked. There's that British guy currently being extradited to the US for doing "the biggest military hack of all time" against the Pentagon cos he was "looking for information about UFOs".
It's abhorrent that he's being sent there. I fully and wholeheartedly support the guy.
Quote: Aaron @ September 12 2008, 10:28 PM BSTWe don't have that brand here.
I realized that was probably the case after I posted it. Trojans are practically synonymous with condoms in the United States.
We all know what they are though.
Quote: Aaron @ September 12 2008, 10:32 PM BSTIt's abhorrent that he's being sent there. I fully and wholeheartedly support the guy.
Out of respect for UFO truth, hackers' rights or patriotism?
Quote: zooo @ September 12 2008, 10:34 PM BSTWe all know what they are though.
I always giggle when I remember the classic tale and picture a condom filled with teeming invaders, desperate to breach a woman's defenses and enter her castle walls.
It's very true to life.
Those naughty little spermy scamps.
Quote: DaButt @ September 12 2008, 10:34 PM BSTOut of respect for UFO truth, hackers' rights or patriotism?
It was a 'crime' which was not committed in the country in which he is set to be tried ("NatWest three" ditto, I think?). The prosecuters IN that country have said they will make him "fry". Quite clearly no actual damage was done. Every account I have seen, both from him and from others, suggests that he pushed on unlocked doors. And that I wouldn't trust the British judiciary, let alone that of a country which still holds the death sentence. I could go on, but quite frankly, I can't be arsed. Basically, every single part of it stinks.
Quote: DaButt @ September 12 2008, 10:37 PM BSTI always giggle when I remember the classic tale and picture a condom filled with teeming invaders, desperate to breach a woman's defenses and enter her castle walls.
But if you think about it, it's a bit unfortunate to call condoms Trojans, isn't it? Considering the metaphor. Those ad men must've had a lot of fun.
Quote: Griff @ September 12 2008, 10:09 PM BSTI used to work for an anti-virus company, and I had a day in the virus lab once watching demonstrations of some of the most deadly ones out there. Dear God, what some of those people can't do to your computer once they drop a virus on it.
Dated now, but I remember being pretty impressed with sub7, allowing random script kiddies to hear you through your mic and see you through your web cam! Jeebus!
Quote: Griff @ September 12 2008, 10:34 PM BSTThe extradition laws between UK and USA are outrageously unbalanced. We hand over our citizens at the drop of a hat, with barely any legal checks and balances, but when we request the same from the USA (eg with IRA terror suspects) there's no reciprocation at all. So I'm told anyway. I'm not a lawyer or anything. But I do sort of know one of the "Nat West Three" (I used to commute to work on the same train as him and chat occasionally) and the way they have been treated is appalling.
All of the above. (Except I didn't know him.)
Quote: ian_w @ September 12 2008, 10:43 PM BSTDated now, but I remember being pretty impressed with sub7, allowing random script kiddies to hear you through your mic and see you through your web cam! Jeebus!
I know I've never been spied on, as I'm yet to be taken to court for psychological scarring.