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Message 1150 DATE/TIME: 03/20/89 20:18
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From : GAZ HOWLAND
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To : ALL
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Subject: I need a mars bar, to help me, help me,
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Folder : E, "Encyclopedia Hacktanica"
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Did you see the article in datalink about the tory MP for Devon South
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The woman wants to jail hackers. She says the following:
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"it will exclude the amateur hackers who can cause damage through sheer
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stupidity"
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"I dont think it is right for a hacker to determine society's right to
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privacy"
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"lives are being put at risk by 'incompetent' hackers"
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(whats an incompetent hacker?)
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She says (by the way, her name is Emma Nicholson),
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she used to be a programmer at ICL:
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"In those days I was doing things like working on the bootstrap
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routines to shave off nano-seconds"
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SOME PROGRAMMER! Why shave nano-seconds off a routine used only when
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the machine is brought up?
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"In those days there was no hacking because it was all machine code"
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I thinks she means there were no modems, and what the hell has machine
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code(assembler to programmers), got to do with stopping hacking?
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"As we advance we lose things like security along the way"
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Oh sure! Because programs are no longer written in "machine code" they
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are now error prone and are a security risk! And those old systems used
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to have a much stricter logon procedure didnt they!
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She hasn't got a clue whats she's talking about.
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Jim Smith wrote the article, and he's usually pretty good. Perhaps
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thats why he left all those silly quotes it.
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(in, not it)
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Gaz.
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