https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmgkBLwxoP8
“ express mirth at people talking about the internet decades ago ” is one of our favorite video subgenres here at Gizmodo , and this specimen does n’t let down : a fatherly AT&T narrator explains the dangers of hackers . await out ! Your modem is under fire !
The video , entitle “ Computer Security : You Make the Difference , ” hits all the same points that infestation cut companies today . Passwords can always be cracked , data file can always be copied .
But you must appreciate the 90s depiction of the hacker , when the stereotype was a tricksy scofflaw with a Marlboro hang from his lip , rather than a 13 - year - older asshole cursing at you via Xbox Live as he download Anonymous software program . There ’s nothing glamourous about this cyberpunk of the ninety . He ’s a solitary human race — his dojo , the simple lily-white walls of some grim cellar . His eye burn from the CRT . But take care at his bone social system , and his manicure whisker — he ’s no nasally loser , he ’s a criminal . Just skip to 2:25 to see the revulsion in his victim ’s face .
And what do we have now?Kidslikethis . [ AT&T viaLaughing Squid ]
https://kotaku.com/a-hackers-shady-start-geohot-in-middle-school-5790822
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