Archive for March, 2006

Mac hacked in 30 minutes (sic)

Within hours of going live, the “rm-my-mac” competition was over. The challenger posted this message on his Web site: “This sucks. Six hours later this poor little Mac was owned and this page got defaced”.
The hacker that won the challenge, who asked ZDNet Australia to identify him only as “gwerdna”, said he gained root control [...]

Tonights conclusion

After fighting with my wireless network for almost 2 hours, not finding a reason why it won’t let me to internet nor to the local network, I gave up and talked with my friend on the phone.
After 5 minutes, suddenly everything worked perfectly.
The conclusion: Technology = Black Magic = Evil.
I know this because I have [...]