| ▲ | supernetworks 3 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is not unlike the surprise in underground.txt when mendax & co discover that curiosity is not the only state of existence for being a hacker. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4686/pg4686.txt "Riffling through other files, Mendax found mail confirming that the attack had indeed come from inside MILNET. His eyes grew wide as he read on. US military hackers had broken into MILNET systems, using them for target practice, and no-one had bothered to tell the system admin at the target site. Mendax couldn't believe it. The US military was hacking its own computers. This discovery led to another, more disturbing, thought. If the US military was hacking its own computers for practice, what was it doing to other countries' computers? " | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | firefax 3 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>This is not unlike the surprise in underground.txt I thought that was originally a book? I distinctly remember reading it during an in school suspension in the 2000s. I tried to go back to my township library and read it again years later, but someone had stolen it around the time that Wikileaks truthfully revealed that the DNC had kneecapped Bernie in the primaries. (Many folks don't seem to distinguish between the public airing of unpleasant truths that could not be aired without their own actions, and "disinformation" in the "covid is a hoax" vein. To them, anything contrary to their narrative is evil and bad, and if only those dastardly Russians would stop making them look bad my making them send several illegal emails they could stop voting like Republicans) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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