[plug] International student w/ DDoS and social engineering history

[Shayne O'Neill]

True. I've said it before, but it bears repeating. The internet is an
inherenly autistic medium. Without body cues, you can only guess peoples
motives. Usually wrongly.

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Freedom's just another word for something new to regulate

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Senectus . wrote:

> On 7/4/05, Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> > Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> >
> > >Oh you know I'm joking fella. I'm a bloody greeny for heck sake. I dont
> > >*DO* violence :)
> > >
> >
> > It was somewhat difficult to tell, to be honest. There are folks out
> > there who "solve" things by violence, after all, and sometimes it can be
> > surprising who they are. Crackers bring out the worst in sysadmins, too.
> >
> > That said, the number of times I've joked "OK, where's the axe, I need
> > to pay Telstra a visit" when the DSL goes down during an important time
> > or talked about "fixing" the macs at work - with a hammer - is would be
> > difficult to count...
> >
> The lack of emoticons make it hard to read the comment as anything
> other than what it says.
>
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