Posts by Joe Wylie
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
The general public and media have trouble understanding the concept of a good hacker. It sounds like a contradiction in terms, like a "good rapist". That's why there's trouble.
They've had decades to adjust. In 1988 the Listener ran a story that described how Telecom was using "street kids" with criminal pasts to performance test their prototype vandal-proof public phones. They came across as mouthy little buggers playing to their perceived notoriety, with one boasting of having beaten a snoozing homeowner unconscious who he'd surprised while carrying out a burglary (hit them on the top of the head, not the side, it's safer). Anyway, I don't recall that the article spawned any outraged letters from distressed gentlefolk.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to duke,
Replicant mitosis spawn of that pinnacle of Granny Herald journalism Shelley Bridgeman?
Now that you mention it, it's probably only the bogan fashion sense that prevents her from being the toast of the media. Give her a dishwasher blonde makeover and she'd be Bridgeman's clone.
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Addington Raceway, September 2010. That carpet's holding up well.
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I know that it's wicked to draw one's jollies from another's cognitive disability, but what the hell.
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Hard News: Special Sources, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
social activists out there kicking the winz tyres
Winz is for sale?
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I don't believe that Ben Masters is a troll. Like most who appear to have opted for subjection to authority over citizenship, he probably genuinely frets over why charges of lèse majesté weren't brought against Shearer last week, or why Nicky Hager wasn't taken out and shot over his maligning of 'Sir' Don Brash.
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MSD CEO Brendan Boyle in happier times:
“He [John Key] saw the advantages of a modern ICT environment and is a great believer in what ICT can do in terms of productivity. Rather than benchmark against other government departments, people now benchmark against online services such as those provided by banks,” Boyle told Computerworld back then.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Hilary Stace,
farcically cyclic
++++1!
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Steve Barnes,
You mean they disabled "Clippy"?
Wasn't he justifiably beaten to death years ago?
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Sacha,
Seems staff using MSD's network in their day-to-day job seem to have global access. Easily.
Grossman's gone now, but her publicly expressed concern over this breach seems to make Keith's revelations all the more remarkable.
