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Originally posted by antryg:
It wasn't just nostalgia that brought this to mind. After all, how fun is it to program using star cards and punch cards. What really struck me is that pranks or hacking back then were for humor and not to vandalize or destroy data or machines. To draw a parallel from one of Arvon's jokes; you have to do more to protect your computer than you do in real life for safe sex.
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What really strikes me is the immaturity of todays crackers (not hackers - hackers are the "good" guys). When I got into trouble on the timeshare machine, the worst I ever did was waste a box of lineprinter paper (man, did the sysop ever get pissed over that! I guess his budget was a difficult thing... [img]tongue.gif[/img] )
Nowadays, they deliberately design virii to bring down network servers "for fun" and don't think twice about the consequences or cost.