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Anderson: Would you like to play a game?

Started by mathewi · 10 months ago

I’m with Mike Arrington on this one: I think the news that Tom Anderson was a teenaged “War Games” hacker is pretty darn cool. According to old news stories that TechCrunch came across, as well as reports from a source close to the MySpace co-founder, he was ... Continue reading »

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  • Tim A

    10 months ago

    I don't look up to hackers. Quite the opposite really. http://www.kosmo.com/blogs/techno/?p=384
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  • mathewi

    10 months ago

    Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion, Tim. I think that
    without the early hackers, we probably wouldn't have many of the
    technologies and services we take for granted today -- including much
    of the Internet.
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  • Tim A

    10 months ago

    I suppose it depends on the exact definition of "hacker". What I'm saying is that I don't look up to folks that break the law. And just because someone was able to break into a computer system doesn't mean they are smart in any way shape or form. Of course they might be but thats not the point.

    I'd beg to argue that hackers of this type had very little to nothing to do with technologies that shaped the industry and the internet.
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  • MaggyYoung

    10 months ago

    I guess it was showing so much initiative so early which was important, not really what he actually did & also to be fair, maybe not so many could have done the same or even thought of it.
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  • indir

    6 months ago

    I'd beg to argue that hackers of this type had very little to nothing to do with technologies that shaped the industry and the internet.
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