andreim

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Here's a concrete example. Particular details are irrelevant and are intentionally absurd:Say I'm debugging my halting_problem_decider.cc when I get some obscure compiler error. Googling it, I somehow stumble on a site that offers all of Britney Spears's music for download--a true diamond in the rough for a true britney fan (assume I know nothing of bittorrent). I'm absolutely ecstatic, but...

As a kid I was fascinated with stories of people hacking into high security places like the pentagon. But I recently realized that, while this was surely no walk in the park even 20 years ago, it must have been easier then that it is now. Things like ssh or vpn weren't around back then, and even though I'm sure they had equivalents, they were probably proprietary and thus not as secure as...