[Techtalk] thanks for all the help!

Mary mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org
Sat Aug 3 08:29:08 EST 2002


On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 04:01:39PM -0600, Val Henson wrote:
> Techtalk is not the appropriate place to ask for help breaking into
> other people's computers.  The culture around here does not think that
> this form of hacking is "cool" or laudable.  The kind of hacking our
> culture does think is "cool" involves kernels. :) You may do as you
> will, but please don't discuss breaking into other people's machines
> on this forum.

You should also note that this is a publically archived mailing list.
The parent of Val's post is archived at
http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2002-August/014948.html

Breaking into other people's computers is becoming regarded as a more
and more serious crime (there is some concern about the US lumping it
into acts defined as "terrorist"). It's not something that you want to
discuss on a mailing list whose archives will probably be available for
years to come :)

-Mary



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