How To Spot A
Hacker
Top Ten Signs That Your Co-Worker is a Hacker
10. You ticked him off once and your next phone bill was $20,000.
9. He's won the Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes three years running.
8. When asked for his phone number, he gives it in hex.
7. Seems strangely calm whenever the office LAN goes down.
6. Somehow he/she gets HBO on his PC at work.
5. Mumbled, "Oh, puh-leeez" 95 times during the movie "The Net"
4. Massive RRSP contribution made in half-cent increments.
3. Video dating profile lists "public-key encryption" among turn-ons
2. When his computer starts up, you hear, "Good Morning, Mr. President."
1. You hear him murmur, "Let's see you use that Visa card now, jerk."
Ways To Know You Are Addicted To Your Computer
10. You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and
check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
9. You get a tattoo that reads "This profile best viewed
with Netscape Navigator 1.1 or higher."
8. You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and Dotcom, or
they all have names composed of eight or more characters
including at least one numeral.
7. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling,
like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
6. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your
lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
5. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or
two, just for the free Internet access.
4. You laugh at people with 2400-baud modems.
3. You start using smileys in your snail mail.
2. You don't think that any of these are funny.
1. Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in for two
hours. You start to twitch. You pick up the phone and
manually dial your ISP's access number. You try to hum to
communicate with the modem. You succeed.
