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In the past couple of days, I have seen a number of references to
There is a reason that this form of chat was started. It's a long story, but back in the days when the internet was not as it is now, the only real things up there were bb's and news servers and email. Web pages (html) had not been thought of. The word 'hacker' did not have the same meaning then as it does not. In fact most of the older unix admins, security pros, coders and people with a large interest in technology with a thirst for knowledge still refer to themselves as hackers (myself included) Anyway, the bb's were regularly scanned for words that were regarded as 'unacceptable'. Considering most of the people using these boards were hackers, the main topics were about computer exploration and thus, many of the topics were taboo. To get around the programs that regularly scanned the bb's the users used to alter the words so they were not seen. As the programs were updated the hackers adopted their language to avoid detection. If you are interested in learning a bit more about this, (personally I find the history of it interesting) grab yourself a copy of this season's 2600 magazine. There is an article in there. Although the script kiddies spoil it these days, it is actually not as lame as most people think. There was actually a reason for it in the same way as there was a reason for smilie faces :) but that's another story. Think of sending an email on a 300 baud modem. Then you could see why shorter was faster -----Original Message----- From: dave smith [mailto:dave.smith@st.com] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:15 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] What is h4x0red? On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:34:17PM +0100, suse_mailing_list@jimmo.com wrote: h4x0red. I
googled on it, but found only sites that have been hacked (?) and a number of other references that say that it happened to them. However, I couldn't find anything that actually said what it is. Any info is greatly appreaciated.
h4x0red is hacker speak for "Hacked". Some people think it is cool to 'encrypt' their messages by replacing letters with other characters which either look similar (e.g. A -> 4) or sound similar. For example, someone might describe themselves as a "133t h4x0r", or "elite hacker". Of course, the fact that they do not appear to know the correct definition of "hacker", nor do they have anything resembling a life is beside the point... Oh, and these are my opinions, not ST's... -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com