[geeks] SPARC proprietary

[Kevin]

I do believe this should just be put to rest.  The term
"hacker" no has no relation to it's older form and
that's that.  Sad but true.  The general public has had
their definition of the term firmly in place since the
mid eighties.  It sucks, but there's no changing
it now.  It's way too far dug in.



Most of those x86 exploits that are attempted on *nix
machines are from worms and other automated attacks. 
Not that there aren't stupid kiddies out there, but
most can at least muster an nmap or queso run before an
exploit is attempted.  The stupidest things that i see
done by actual humans involve massive parallel TCP
connect scans from the same dail up IP or lame ass
smurf attacks done against core internet routers.

/KRM

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:59:49 +0100
Mike Meredith <mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Well, not everyone who attacks computers is a script
> kiddie ... the ones who know what they're doing are
> worthy of respect (not that I like what they do, but
> you have to respect their abilities). Personally I
> call them 'crackers' but I guess the battle over the
> word is lost.
> 
> The media thinks that breaking into computers is
> difficult despite evidence to the contrary. You soon
> see just how dumb they can be when you see them
> trying x86 exploits against an alpha/sparc/mips.