[PLUG] ATTBI to Comcast switch

Steven A. Adams stevea at nwtechops.com
Sat Jun 14 16:53:02 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 16:10, Jeme A Brelin wrote:

> First, I didn't mean to imply that cable is technically inferior to DSL
> for any reason at all.  I certainly didn't state that the actions of
> script-kiddies "pollute" the networks they transit.
> 
> I essentially had four elements that I tied together:
> Script-kiddies
> Bored, anti-social behavior
> Suburbs
> Cable internet service
> 
> The assumptions, I felt, were the seemingly obvious associations of the
> first and last pair as couplets.  The rest was just reason.

And the statement that script-kiddies and cable modems are somehow
associated is the root of my skepticism. Do you think that
script-kiddies are a product of cable modems? They did exist, and
practice, before cable modems were in wide distribution you know.

> The actions of script-kiddies corresponds pretty well with people that are
> bored and anti-social.  They're scanning huge networks for some nominal
> thrill-in-destruction.  If you've got the time and energy to scan huge
> networks AND you get some kind of thrill out of very small challenges
> (like slipping a trojan to IIS), you're probably bored.  And if you're
> attempting to do damage or find ways to do damage to other people's
> systems, you're probably anti-social.

Read this again Jeme, you have to see that it's based on generalization
and speculation. It is an interesting opinion though, which is why I
stated that I would like to see it qualified.






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