[Gllug] not so great hacker/tech movies

[F Andersen]

> >> I still rather the like the notion in "Independence Day" of
> downloading a
> >> virus onto an alien computer system in order to disable its force-field
> >> generator !!
> >
> > THat is only a problem because you still believe that the 60M
> lines of code
> > in MS Windows was written on this planet. The rest of the
> universe has it's
> > share of cr*p programmers as well! :-)
> >
>
> The other problem was that he did it using a Mac. ;)

I think the guy wrote a Perl script on his Mac laptop (running OS 8 or 9) to
disable the force field.

He did the same to 'triangulate' the signal from his ex-wife's mobile, if I
recall correctly.


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