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What you ever see 'hackers'? The 90s were cavalier. We're talking over 20 years ago, different time. The big difference was that people were... for lack of a
by jamal-kumar 4y ago
What you ever see 'hackers'?
The 90s were cavalier. We're talking over 20 years ago, different time.
The big difference was that people were... for lack of a better designation, intensely naive back then. There just wasn't a lot of understanding around consequences.
- serf 4y ago> What you ever see 'hackers'? to be fair that movie follows a group of teenagers showcasing illegal activities that finally culminate into their federal arrest. yeah, they're later exonerated because 'Movie-FBI' has a heart and a sense of justice, but that's probably not the best movie to try to pull criminality psych from. my guess : Eric Corley injected a lot of his own personal ethos into that movie. He was apparently an unpaid consultant.
- jamal-kumar 4y agoIt's what people had to model their own behaviour on in a time where most depictions weren't exactly positive I guess? I'm purely speaking retrospectively here
- pigtailgirl 4y ago-- 1997 - 11 years old - figured out the username password & dial up numbers for everyone in our small town are based on the mailing address - once the bandwidth limit was reached on the account - id just switch to someone elses - at the time i justified it as 'borrowing their internet' - in retrospect it was wrong - oh well --
- riffraff 4y agoI don't think that people were more naive, they were just young. I am pretty sure kids today are also doing some different mildly illegal stuff with technology, but we'll have to wait 20 years to find out about it.
- trevyn 4y agoPhotoshopping printed documents (school enrollment records, event tickets, covid stuff, etc.) was definitely weirdly popular among a certain demographic. Also scamming product returns, food delivery refunds, stuff like this. Curious what other things people have run across.
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