NOTE FROM KIM:

A northeast Philadelphia company is
teaching a course on ethical hacking
in which computer professionals learn
to protect their firms’ systems by
finding out how to break into them.

The Top 7 Things
Overheard at Hacker Boot Camp

7> “No L33T at the dinner table, please.”

6> “Wait, you live in your mom’s basement, too? No way!”

5> “I don’t know but I’ve been told, sunlight shines a pale gold!”

4> “Remember, it’s whitehouse.gov, not whitehouse.com!”

3> “This is my Zero, This is my One! One is for business, the other’s for fun!”

2> “I can see why we have to be able to field-strip a Sun E25K server blindfolded, but in the *rain?*”

and the Number 1 Thing Overheard at Hacker Boot Camp…

1> “This one time at Microsoft…”

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Credits:

Selected from 25 submissions from 8 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

Chuck Burke, Phoenix, NY — 1, 4
Bill Livingston, Decatur, AL — 2, 3
Andrew Hackard, Austin, TX — 5
Bruce Kane, Charlotte, NC — 6, 7
Kim Moser, New York, NY — List Moderator, Topic