News Flash: CNN Doesn't '"get it"

mcleodnine · 10-21-2003, 01:39 AM

It's OK, they're just a cable news outlet. From this article we are to learn anew...

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"Hacking" is the term for using a computer to break into another computer network.

MasterC · 10-21-2003, 02:45 AM

Semi related:
CNN isn't proper for my viewing:
CNN = Cable News Network;
However, I watch it via Satellite, so is it not "SNN"?

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mcleodnine · 10-21-2003, 02:53 AM

Heya Chad! Good to see you're back again.

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However, I watch it via Satellite, so is it not "SNN"?

More like SNL, although I can't for the life of me pick which one is funny.

megaspaz · 10-21-2003, 02:59 AM

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Outside the courtroom, the lanky teenager told TV cameras he now hoped to get a job as a computer security consultant...

that strikes me as funny and not likely if he's gonna stick to:

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Caffrey had insisted that, although the infiltration was triggered from his computer, he was not behind it. He testified as an expert in his own defense, arguing that a hacker could have taken over his machine to mount the attack.

you wanna consult me on how to secure my rig, when yours was....

MasterC · 10-21-2003, 03:03 AM

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Originally posted by mcleodnine
Heya Chad! Good to see you're back again.

Thanks

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More like SNL, although I can't for the life of me pick which one is funny.

If it's pre 90's SNL, by far SNL wins. Post 90's is definitely an episode by episode comparison against each news cast

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Dhimani · 10-21-2003, 07:23 PM

That's why, if I want REAL news, I watch Fox News Channel.

Azmeen · 10-22-2003, 12:13 AM

With all due respect, I find that all the American "news" broadcasters that I've watched sucks... Then I discovered the beeb and never looked back.

Robert0380 · 10-22-2003, 03:25 AM

i wonder what OS he was running.

lol, he hopes to work in IS....and had to go to court on hacking charges. i bet he was guilty and convinced the jury with blaster worm stories. lol

Megamieuwsel · 10-22-2003, 03:41 AM

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"Hacking" is the term for using a computer to break into another computer network.

This sentence , in and of itself , is actually true ; This is exactly what Security-Experts(the real ones , I mean) are doing for a living : Probing and nudging the security-measures in place and exposing the weaknesses.

It's when these skills are applied to illicit goals , we're talking about "Cracking".

Now CNN made a BIG boo when they brought up this phrase in the context of this article.
Yes ; The wrong interpretation of words and concepts I consider extremely harmfull to the people involved with them and were I a genuine hacker , I'd have sued their pants off for slander.

ashjam10 · 10-22-2003, 03:46 AM

I'm sorry, isn't "cracking" the term used for removing copy protection from programs?

Megamieuwsel · 10-22-2003, 04:58 AM

Amongst others ; yes.
"Cracking" covers about everything that has to do with bypassing/disabling security-measures for illigal means.
Copy-protections are a kind of security-measure too.

quietguy47 · 10-22-2003, 08:35 AM

I don't think CNN ever checks their facts before broadcasting a story(IMHO).

Megamieuwsel · 10-22-2003, 09:09 AM

True , but that counts for about the majority of the "popular" networks and papers.
"Truth" has never been a hot item in the news-buissness ; Sensationalism and "juicy" tales is what brings in the bucks.

habitue · 10-24-2003, 08:35 AM

I hope no one is too attached, but the word "hacker" is probably never going to go back to meaning what it used to. Sure, it'd be great if somehow it lost its negative connotation and went back to mean what it probably should, but word's meanings are dictated by how the majority of people use them. When the average person says "hacker" they mean a malicious, lawless computer criminal. Its definition has changed over time, and it looks like "senile" is going to go back to merely meaning "old" before hacker once again merely means someone who is good with computers.

It doesn't mean CNN is ignorant per se, they are just using it in the way most people use it now.

Just my two cents.

Megamieuwsel · 10-24-2003, 08:56 AM

Just because the Moron Majority thinks so , doesn't make it right :
This is how that wonderfull thing , called "communication" , gets mangled over and over again.
I'm quite aware , I'm incapable of stopping the process all by my own , but I can't help trying.

Another sad example of how a word got a very negative connotation is the concept of "anarchy" ; that one got connotated with the concept of Nihilism(The total disregard for any kind of rules) by some bunch of sensationalist retards , whereas it originally means :"Not acknowledging a ruling class".
And the stupid herd followed it blindly.
Sad indeed....