Journal TrollBack's Journal: Trollback for May 2003 4
The interview with Fyodor
It was nice to see that such a noble white-hat as Fyodor, who is so decent and upstanding as to explain the Jedi-esque philosophies of hackers, stooping so low as to offer his humble insights for the Slashdot audience. In traditional Slashdot style, the top rated comments were be passed on as questions, although strangely Egg Troll's question, still at +5 Troll, was missed out of the resulting interview. Trollback can only assume that it fell through the cracks somewhere. Certainly a strange set of events befell this question. After several days at at +5, it was gradually moderated down to 1, even with the support of the K5 community. Trollback's sources suggest that after an email was sent to CmdrTaco enquiring about this, the post quickly returned to +5.
Most of you know the story of Fyodor vs SDEM, but the average slashbot - to whom Fyodor is something of a hero - did not. This black mark against Fyodor's name has been a long time coming, but despite protestations and initial disbelief, even a quick look through the two stories will show people starting to ask questions of their idol, and all this despite outright lying on behalf of the Russian wannabe. A quick read of question 5 and its answer will yield such insights as:
"I never do script-kiddie style "hack any random vulnerable box on the Internet" cracking..."
"Of course, I only do this when the company is paying me to do so"
and most amusingly: "Now some people might ask how you gain these skills without practising on other networks first"
How indeed, Fyodor? He simply pretended to break into the machine. Word is not yet out on how he then pretended to take screenshots and place them on his web-page for all to pretend to see.
The list
(5,55,161) Faggot | ProTools is a large reason modern music sucks
(0,10,12) Samir Gupta | Health concerns
(0,8,15) Samir Gupta | My perspective as an ex-SEGA employee
(0,10,55) APA | Standardized tests
(4,8,21) APA | How I feel about programming competitions
(-1,11,18) I Am The Owl | Sexist.
(1,15,22) GoatPigSheep | extremely dangerous
(0,8,8) Jon Romero | Thanks for reading
(-1,10,33) APA | Overkill
(-1,7,16) Samir Gupta | Too much overkill I think
(-1,12,46) GoatPigSheep | Jon Carmack: dooming society?
(3,8,15) Sheetrock | Then work on an alternative...
(2,10,14) APA | I loved Gentoo
(4,15,29) Adam Rightmann | nmap is easily fooled
(2,12,45) APA | The reason people steal music
(4,12,19) Sheetrock | Confused
(-1,17,41) APA | What's the point, really?
(-1,9,27) APA | Spam is just good business
(-1,16,25) APA | This is all false information
(-1,20,37) APA | Um, this can't be right
(-1,13,17) APA | This is all wrong
(4,12,19) Samir Gupta | We've investigated GameCube clusters too
(0,10,16) Samir Gupta | A perspective from a competitor...
(3,9,11) Sheetrock | Not ready for precision?
(-1,9,16) Adam Rightmann | Will a Sino-Lunar base be our Sputnik?
Honourable mentions
- We'd like to thank Eric for focusing his talent and energy on slashdot this past month. It is sad to see his latest account with negative karma.
- Re-live the joy of $$$exyGal.
- GoatPigSheep reminds us that not all is what it seems - there are absurd liberal myths all around.
That's it for this month.
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