NOTA BENE: Feel free to ignore this message but I think some of you guys might find this
rather amusing..Also, it?s Friday before Valborgsafton so, Johnny, I?m sure you?ll be cool
about this (I guarantee very infrequent) totally off-topic post.
Right Johnny? Hyv?? Vappua and all that? (it?s like Christmas for alcoholics in Finland.
Hell, it?s like our third most popular holiday)
Anyway,
Some background: Yesterday there was something of a revolution in the alt.2600 Facebook
group (?The Hacker Quarterly?, I am a member purely out of professional interest) which
led to the owner of the actual machine basically kicking out all the admins since facts
emerged that the founder of the FB group, Adrian Lamo (same guy that basically handed
Bradley/Chelsea Manning over to the Feds over the Wikileaks thing since he had some Very
Serious Business federal charges hanging over him) had been data mining the alt.2600 IRC
server for the NSA.
This did not go down too well, since he wasn?t actually coerced into this - it?s what he
does for a living now, apparently (OSINT - open-source intelligence gathering).
So anyway, new admins were installed, including a buddy of mine [I?m fairly certain she?s
not a Fed, if she is, she hides her money well] and as the group reopened a hilarious
typhoon of bovine excrement started flying around including some 17 year old clearly on
his 8th can of Monster Energy posting a hilariously poor attempt at high register English
rhetoric about Adrian Lamo?s ?High Crimes against the Hacking Community?.
Of course, the guys being the sociopathic pranksters they are, immediately started
question said script kiddy?s coding abilities.
At which point I (and APL, the programming language) entered the conversation, which you
can see here:
http://sampsa.com/apl.png