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Please explain the use of "scare quotes" -- do you emphasize ease of the hack, or do you imply inside job rather than acutal hacking?
by dexen 14y ago
Please explain the use of "scare quotes" -- do you emphasize ease of the hack, or do you imply inside job rather than acutal hacking?
- trotsky 14y agoAt some point gross negligence becomes indistinguishable from malicious behavior.
- mdonahoe 14y agoInside job. Hence the "profit" in step 4.
- cmelbye 14y agoObviously he means inside job, as the next point is "Profit". Was that not blatantly obvious?
- danbloom 14y agogoogle "scare quotes'' + ''dan bloom" to see inside skinny on the meaning and origins of the scare quotes term, first coined in 1934.... ! but why is SCARE part of the term? if know, email me at danbloom AT gmail