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Re:Why we lie about being retired by xwdv on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @01:44PM (#20749726)
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.

Re:Why we lie about being retired by badpun on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:34PM (#20750373)
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.
Re:Why we lie about being retired by mythrwy on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @07:38PM (#20753338)
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 (#20749773)
I would read this novel.
Re:Why we lie about being retired by Noumenon72 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:57PM (#20753095)
Maybe he should write a novel instead of the botnets.
Re:Why we lie about being retired by aggie on Thursday August 22, 2019 @05:13PM (#20772395)
Re:Why we lie about being retired by ecorithm on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:43PM (#20753943)
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.

Re:Why we lie about being retired by mycall on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:17PM (#20754314)
Thanks to this post, they will be knocking soon. Well done.
Re:Why we lie about being retired by gscott on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:45PM (#20754179)
I agree! Stick it to the Man.