NOTE FROM KIM:

A reporter from NBC’s Dateline,
who attempted to go undercover at a
recent Defcon hacker convention, fled
from the scene after being outed.

The Top 9 Signs a Hacker Is
Really an Undercover Reporter

9> Brags about his leet skills managing format styles in Word.

8> Gets caught raiding the AOL free CD stands.

7> Can’t finish more than two cans of Mountain Dew in one sitting.

6> Brings his Starbucks punch-card to a Java convention.

5> Claims his name is Kenneth, but doesn’t know the frequency.

4> “What does everyone have against Microsoft, anyway? They’re pretty decent.”

3> When signing their name, they use a use strange combination of capitals as first letter of each name, and lower-case for all the rest.

2> Introduces his overburdened friend as his webcameraman.

and the Number 1 Sign a Hacker Is Really an Undercover Reporter…

1> “Of course I’m a hacker. You doubt my ‘one thousand, three hundred and thirty seven’ skillz?”

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Credits:

Selected from 27 submissions from 8 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

Matt Van Opens, Watertown, WI — 1, 4, 7, Topic (Hat trick!)
Andrew Hackard, Austin, TX — 2, 8
Barry Wallace, Knoxville, TN — 3
Bruce W. Alter, Fairfax Station, VA — 5
Allen Evans, Cedar Rapids, IA — 6
Marcelo Rinesi, Buenos Aires, Argentina — 9
Kim Moser, New York, NY — List Moderator