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Re:WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and P... by yesbabyyes on Monday April 26, 2010 @03:50AM (#1294370)
One more thing that I found strange:

"Parkes: If there's something naive about the movie, it's that we didn't anticipate the power of hackers. For the handful of people who ended up doing things like unleashing viruses, well, most of those guys got arrested and then worked for the computer security business. So I guess it's all worked out."

What does he actually mean? The first sentence, I get. But the thing about virus writers not being a problem, and a handful of people writing viruses... In which world does this guy live?

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Re:WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and P... by sp332 on Monday April 26, 2010 @09:55AM (#1294850)
"Crunchman" Draper, most if not all of the old L0pht crew, Condor, Woz, Dark Dante, etc.
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Re:WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and P... by yesbabyyes on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @12:24PM (#1298710)
Did Draper and Woz write viruses?

Anyway, that's not what I meant. He seems to suggest that nobody writes viruses anymore, while I seem them running rampant.

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