Weekend Reading
What is a Hacker?
A hacker is someone who thinks outside the box. It's someone who discards conventional wisdom, and does something else instead. It's someone who looks at the edge and wonders what's beyond. It's someone who sees a set of rules and wonders what happens if you don't follow them. A hacker is someone who experiments with the limitations of systems for intellectual curiosity.
Read the entire article HERE.
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Computer defenders win elite hacker contest
In their cyber circle of friends, Jordan Wiens and John Sawyer are 31337 H4X0RZ.
It means "elite hackers" in a coded language of numbers and letters used by many computer enthusiasts. The two University of Florida computer security engineers earned the distinction in Las Vegas over the summer by helping their team win the prestigious "Capture the Flag" competition held in conjunction with Defcon 2006, the world's largest hacker conference.
Read the entire article HERE.
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The Three Letters
A man takes a new job in an IT shop and finds three letters in his desk from the former head of the department. Each letter is only to be opened in an emergency.
Read this [old] very funny short story HERE.
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The programs that slow down Windows
The PC Spy web site ran several tests to determine which applications, when installed on your Windows computer, are doing the most to slow down your system. Each new application was installed on a totally fresh machine, and the tests were repeated 3 times each.
The results? Read the article HERE.
A hacker is someone who thinks outside the box. It's someone who discards conventional wisdom, and does something else instead. It's someone who looks at the edge and wonders what's beyond. It's someone who sees a set of rules and wonders what happens if you don't follow them. A hacker is someone who experiments with the limitations of systems for intellectual curiosity.
Read the entire article HERE.
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Computer defenders win elite hacker contest
In their cyber circle of friends, Jordan Wiens and John Sawyer are 31337 H4X0RZ.
It means "elite hackers" in a coded language of numbers and letters used by many computer enthusiasts. The two University of Florida computer security engineers earned the distinction in Las Vegas over the summer by helping their team win the prestigious "Capture the Flag" competition held in conjunction with Defcon 2006, the world's largest hacker conference.
Read the entire article HERE.
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The Three Letters
A man takes a new job in an IT shop and finds three letters in his desk from the former head of the department. Each letter is only to be opened in an emergency.
Read this [old] very funny short story HERE.
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The programs that slow down Windows
The PC Spy web site ran several tests to determine which applications, when installed on your Windows computer, are doing the most to slow down your system. Each new application was installed on a totally fresh machine, and the tests were repeated 3 times each.
The results? Read the article HERE.
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