23 Sep
1997
23 Sep
'97
5:23 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Anthony Clifton wrote:
Well, they did show some pseudo-red-boxing. Although the tones were just
DTMF rather than the actual ACTS tones.
"Do you remember when you asked me to tell you
when you were acting
rudely and insensitively? Well, you're doing it right now." It sounds
EXACTLY like conversations between me and this skinny techno-dweeb I work
with.
I wouldn't let guys like that work at my company.
How about
_Hackers_? That surely set off the latest wave of techno
dweebies who think just because they can connect to a URL they've hacked
into a system.
I don't think so. Not from what I've seen. The technology was too
buried under techno music and skateboards. And although it was about
hackers even more directly than was Wargames, it gave even LESS realistic
information about how to begin than did Wargames. At least wardialers
and poor security were REAL things in the 80s. Speaking of Sandra Bullock in The Net....there were
computers in The Net?
;-D
Well, to its credit, it was the first movie (AFAIK) where the hacking
took place on the web.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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