Personally, if I found myself toward the end of my life retired and hopelessly frail, confined to a bed all day, with no children or even a friend worth seeing, I’ve decided I’ll just live out the rest of my days hacking into systems, creating botnets, ransoming data, just seeing what’s out there and trying to build some sort of malware network that can live on for a while after I’m gone. For what? Who knows. I’m just cashing in on a lifetime of skills and knowledge that I never got to use to it’s full extent, simply because I wanted to live an honest life. It’s better than laying there watching a TV all day falling asleep with a dry gaping mouth.
And if I slip up and get tracked, and I hear the law breaking down the door to get in, I’ll just swallow a pack of pills and be done with it, by the time they get to me, they’ll just find a deflating old corpse sunken into a bed, while thousands of compromised machines stand by to execute their final orders once the dead man’s switch goes off.
This is how I fade.
I've read somewhere that there's a increasing trend of bitter, lonely old men in France who try to rob banks (yes!) because they're so bored and antisocial from lack of human connections. This would be a hacker version of that.
It might be hard to build ransom botnets when you can barely read the soup menu and have trouble remembering what year it is.
Re:Why we lie about being retired
by goldenCeasar on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @01:49PM
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I would read this novel.
Re:Why we lie about being retired
by Noumenon72 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:57PM
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Maybe he should write a novel instead of the botnets.
You're in luck! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)
I enjoyed them.
I've always just read the site and never posted. But what is wrong with you? You are clearly a disturbed individual with some serious moral failings. By the time you retire hopefully you've grown up enough to not give into your childish impulses.
If you were being sarcastic then I'm sorry and I'll feel like a total idiot.
Thanks to this post, they will be knocking soon. Well done.
I agree! Stick it to the Man.
The world is a gigantic place. Boredom is never caused by not having things to do. It's caused by not wanting to do anything, and that is a very different problem.
Different people have different things that they love. And people has different levels of access to doing the things they love.
If you are really passionate about driving racing cars but you can't afford to do so, people telling you that you can play games or instruments doesn't really help.
2. Do you mean Braille? Yes, large print can suffice sometimes... Audiobooks if your hearing is adequate.
3. Add some motor coordination problems and this is not happening.
4. It is boring for many.
5. Sure, with failing healthy and being less able to move. Not impossible, just not likely.
6. Too late for many things.
Most people forget that were talking 70 years old people or so. Some remain spry, but they are a minority.
6b. And what makes you think you will have better ideas then? Or have any actual energy?
By the time they're 60, most people attain at least one chronic health problem. If they're lucky, it's manageable for normal full energy life without such excesses.
Some fade much earlier than that.
Finally, the main problem is gradual loss of connections, friends, family etc.