From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-06-04T08:27:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Games for Programmers

On 3 Jun 2009, at 22:59, Jeff Moore wrote:
> It's pretty amazing really. Both Hacker and the Cyberpunk manual are
> Hollywood-grade content. Fun, maybe; amusing, maybe; but not
> particularly
> useful, reality-based or seditious.

It brings back some fun memories of the late 80s and the hysteria  
which built up in the aftermath of the Morris Worm - because hackers  
were a heartbeat from launching thermonuclear armageddon, or something  
like that lol

> It makes you wonder about competence in certain quarters...


There was a noticeable overlap between the hacker and gaming scenes at  
the time so I guess it wasn't entirely dumb-headed of law enforcement  
to go snooping, but being clueless noobs they made a real hash of it...


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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