Author Topic: Genius! Pure Genius! (Read 4420 times)

UncleBob · « **on:** January 29, 2009, 09:06:13 AM »

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,484326,00.html

Caliban · « **Reply #1 on:** January 29, 2009, 09:48:48 AM »

HAHA nice.

EasyCure · « **Reply #2 on:** January 29, 2009, 10:23:38 AM »

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"It's sort of amusing, but not at all helpful," he told FOXNews.com.

Wouldn't be saying that if there were a zombie Apocalypse...

Plugabugz · « **Reply #3 on:** January 29, 2009, 11:17:14 AM »

That would make perfect sense in Shaun of the Dead still the greatest zombie film in years...

EasyCure · « **Reply #4 on:** January 29, 2009, 11:39:14 AM »

Quote from: Plugabugz on January 29, 2009, 11:17:14 AM

That would make perfect sense in Shaun of the Dead still the greatest zombie film in years...

Indeed

nickmitch · « **Reply #5 on:** January 29, 2009, 04:43:22 PM »

Whoever did that deserves a medal.

D_Average · « **Reply #6 on:** January 29, 2009, 05:16:14 PM »

best prank eva

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #7 on:** February 04, 2009, 02:38:29 AM »

When I was coming home tonight it looks like someone hacked another one of these construction signs (probably a copy cap of this prank) that said "Zombies Drool".

EasyCure · « **Reply #8 on:** February 04, 2009, 08:35:53 AM »

Thats lame for two reasons.

Pale · « **Reply #9 on:** February 04, 2009, 08:38:35 AM »

It cracks me up that they call this "hacking".

I think a better term would be "operating" or "using".

UncleBob · « **Reply #10 on:** February 04, 2009, 08:52:32 AM »

I think "hacking" is considered gaining unauthorized access. If I kept guessing your password until I got into your account, then posted stuff, would you say I "hacked" your account?

Pale · « **Reply #11 on:** February 04, 2009, 08:57:08 AM »

I guess maybe, but these people didn't even guess the password. This obviously all started with someone who had been "trained" in using the signs before.

UncleBob · « **Reply #12 on:** February 04, 2009, 09:22:23 AM »

'meh... it's a fine line.

Let's say there was a master-password I could use to get into any account on the forum, programmed in there by the creators of the forum - and one of these people gave me the password that I used to get into everyone's account and create havoc...

Pale · « **Reply #13 on:** February 04, 2009, 09:28:29 AM »

Say someone handed you the keys to a ferrari and you hopped in and drove off.

Did you hack the ferrari? No, you operated it. =P

I just think this is closer to billboard graffiti than it is to "hacking".

Hacking requires gaining access to a greater system through a loophole and then a larger playground opens up.

UncleBob · « **Reply #14 on:** February 04, 2009, 09:43:52 AM »

Dictionary.com defines Hacking as "To use one's skill in computer programming to gain illegal or unauthorized access to a file or network"

Obviously, this person gained illegal/unauthorized access to a file. Did they have to use their "skill" in "computer programming" to do so?

Pale · « **Reply #15 on:** February 04, 2009, 10:09:15 AM »

Well I would disagree with that definition... but either way, I don't really look at at big sign that you set what it says as a system to be hacked.

When kids talk their parents into buying those spinny LED things at a theme park, and then they set them up to say silly things like "poop", does that make them all 1337 H4><0|2Z?

UncleBob · « **Reply #16 on:** February 04, 2009, 10:36:07 AM »

No, because they're authorized to make the changes.

If your account says what I tell it to say, does that mean I didn't hack your account and all's well?

UncleBob · « **Reply #17 on:** February 04, 2009, 10:41:22 AM »

le sigh

More originality, please...

Pale · « **Reply #18 on:** February 04, 2009, 10:54:55 AM »

So what if I stole a little kid's led word thing and made it say "poop" and then gave it back to them. Does that make me a hacker?

Khushrenada · « **Reply #19 on:** February 04, 2009, 11:05:17 AM »

No, it makes you abusive towards children, you heartless jerk.

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Author Topic: Genius! Pure Genius! (Read 4420 times)