[LinuxUsers] Dan Tentler's script kiddie antics last night

[Chris Louden]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Fischer, Benjamin <BFischer at llu.edu> wrote:
>>And that's the problem with script kiddies - they actually haven't done
>>anything innovative... I don't think Dan Tentler actually wrote any
> code or >ever did anything original - certainly nothing educational to
> the group - >he just ran someone else's application and harvested
>>everyone's packets looking for personal information.   Any one of us
>>could do that (but none of us have except for him.)
>
> How do you know no one else was there harvesting?  This could also be

possible but unlikely. The only other laptop i recall seeing was a gal
with a HP mini running Vista.

> viewed as an educational event in that everyone should be more
> vigilant...

This was more of a "uncool" thing. Several of us saw him launch it and
knew others that came in later did not. Doing is not necessarily a bad
thing. It was just not communicated very well to everyone.

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