Jet Bin Fever This looks a lot like what I thought hacking was like when I was 13, lots of data flying around and being deflected.
THA SUGAH RAIN So you saw Hackers at an impressionable and ignorant age, too? My neighbor friend at the time wanted to live out the hacker fantasy world, so I showed him some BS war dialers/sniffers/phone tricks that I came across. Baffled, he demanded to be taken to "cyber space of a mainframe" just like in the movie.
Old_Zircon My introduction to that stuff was the Cyberpunk/Mondo 2000 issue of Wired that I stole from my orthodontist's office in middle school.
chairsforcheap people that think computers and solar systems don't have a consciousness are idiots
Old_Zircon Hey, humans invented the concept of consciousness, we can damn well decide what has it and what doesn't. It's not like it matters to anything but us anyway.
Bort Why isn't this guy using Fail2Ban? (Though I suppose it would make for a boring video.)