::scr hacking in life

[Piers Cawley]

Alaric Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com> writes:

> On Wednesday 06 February 2002 11:39, you wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:12:02AM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote:
>> > Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org> writes:
>> > > Put it this way (in an effort to make this more of a discussion) how
>> > > many people here would like to do this sort of thing (rob banks etc
>> > > etc) and is this a fairly common desire or is it a kind of hackery
>> > > personality trait?
>> >
>> > Frankly I wouldn't want to do the robbing banks thing, but one of the
>> > aspects of magic that's always fascinated me is pickpocketing,
>> > especially stage pickpocketing, so yeah, maybe it is.
>>
>> I've had a think, and I suppose that the hackish crime I'd most like to
>> commit is electoral fraud, on a big enough scale to change the result
>> of a parliamentary election for a constituency.
>
> I'd like to do some kind of dodgy share dealing thing where I end up owning 
> the world's entire wealth.
>
> Not sure if it's possible, but the economy is such a complex system that 
> there *must* be a root exploit somewhere...

Hmm... see _Norstrilia_. Cordwainer Smith was a strange man.

Happy note: Just picked up _True Names and the Opening of the
Cyberspace Frontier_ by Vinge et al.

-- 
Piers

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