[LINK] Re: [Oz-ISP] Computer hacker jailed for two years

[Brendan Pratt]

Hi Ken,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Kirkby" <richard@manuka.terrigal.net.au>

Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] Computer hacker jailed for two years


> > >>> From the ABC:
> > >>>
> > >>> "A computer hacker who caused thousands of litres of raw sewage to
flow
> > >>> into creeks and parks on the lower Queensland Coast has been jailed
for
> > >>> two years."

> > >> I don't think hacker is really appropriate do you?
> > >> The term moron comes to mind. What an idiot.
> > >>
> > >> http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/daily/newsnat-31oct2001-96.htm
> > >
> > > Agreed, but the media love the term.
> >
> > My job title is "Kernel Hacker".  Think of the pain I have to go
> > through.

> Thank god he wasnt in Sydney, if he'd attacked the sewerage treatment
> down near Caltex's refinery he would have been a Kurnell Hacker.

Could be worse I guess, depending upon how near or Far it was.

:-)