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I would recommend using all legal means available to unstack the deck. Contrary to many folks interpretation of the Salon story, I did not investigate Bunim-Murray Productions Windows/SMB network until the casting process was in it’s final leg. I had seen enough of BMP to make a judgment call that they’d probably more impressed than pissed. By that time I’d also returned all four signed copies of the 30-page contract they require of semi-finalists. Perhaps it could be argued in court that by being under contract, and under so much scrutiny from them, my explorations constituted an acceptable behavior.
In the end, I’ve never used or had any inclination to use ill-begotten information for a malicious purposes. That won’t protect my bare ass should MTV come calling with a legality spanking, but at least I maintained some dignity by not publicly airing their dirty laundry.
As for future plans – Every time I walk out of a class, I want to major in that subject. Perhaps Cuesta’s better than most community colleges, or I’m just passing through a standard deer-in-the-headlights freshman syndrome. In the long run, computer science and business would be an obvious choice, but communication, psychology and journalism better fits my personality. I want to do it all.
rcade asks:
I’m one of the people who suggested Abe Ingersoll as an interview subject on Slashdot. The guy snuck into the unsecured network of the Road Rules producers and used the information he gained to (a) improve his odds of getting on the show, (b) play head games with people on the show, and (c) improve his odds of getting laid while on the show. Millions of TV viewers know the guy as a “computer hacker” or “computer cracker.”
Add all of this up, and I think it’s worthwhile to see what’s rattling around in the guy’s head. Besides, he’s not much more of an MTV fan than people making comments here, comparing Road Rules to “looking up someone’s *censored*” in the Salon article.
Some questions:
If you are on probation for the credit card scam, snooping through Bunim-Murray’s network could have sent you to jail. Did Bunim-Murray or anyone else make noise about pursuing legal action against you?
What bug reports were you reading when you got the idea to employ Back Orifice on the Bunim-Murray network?
By all appearances, you haven’t suffered much in the way of negative consequences for cracking and other misdeeds. Now that you’re on the MTV-celebrity lecture tour, are you doing anything to teach the teeming millions that cracking is a bad idea?
Abe answers:
The only comment I got back from Bunim-Murray regarding the Salon article was a smile. I think they may have expected that I’d do much worse, and are just hoping I don’t get in bed with a lawyer who’s seen “The Fight” before a statute of limitations runs out.
As for bug reports, that’s essentially a misquote. I was asked to paraphrase statements about keeping abreast of computer world news in general into something more quotable.
If anyone needs to an example of how cracking is a bad idea and will eventually just cause you to hurt yourself, follow this link [no link was provided -ed.]and set your threshold low.
The article was written about four months ago and was passed around between a couple different media outlets before it was finally published on Salon. When I consider how many editors it went through, I can’t be too disappointed with the final product.
The hatchet job was the “hacker” verbiage! EVERY single chance I got during the interviews I would correct the writer’s inclination to use misuse of the term. “It’s cracker. CRACKER! CRACKED! CRACKER! Please don’t use ‘hacker’ or I’ll look like an idiot.” Back when I filled out “punk hacker kid” on my written Road Rules application I had wanted to sound cool to the technology illiterate casting team. My bad. I’ve since learned that ‘dropping the term’, even off-handedly, is painfully equivalent to ‘dropping the soap’ in flame hell.