uhh no d00d, i been watching the elite underground haxors for a year now. thanks.
consider this. bugtraq is inundated more and more with hackers rushing to find the next big thing. it's not just about the love of exploring code and so forth. it's about getting credit among your peers.
the ritual disclaimers are not unlike any other ritual disclaimer in the field of science. read one of them thar science articles in a Big Important Science journal and see the same.
kelley
At 07:17 AM 9/13/00 -0400, W. Kiernan wrote:
>kelley wrote:
> >
> > giving away code, as far as i can tell, is all about showing everyone
> > how big your dick is...
>
>Maybe you haven't looked at very much source code. That closed source
>stuff is the code equivalent of the Great Oz. At the risk of offending
>one and all by this metaphor, it's hard to maintain that your dick is
>so-stupendously-huge when you are actually whipping it out in the open
>where everyone can size it with their own eyes. The open source stuff
>I've used is full of /* modest apologies inside comments */ for its
>flaws, as-yet-and-probably-never-fixed lacunae, and general lameness.
>
>You could be mistaking the laughably phony media image of 31337 hax0rs
>for what open source programmers really are like (e.g.: relatively few
>shaved heads, pierced this-n-that, tattoos). To spy on the very
>1337est-of-the-1337 at work, why not subscribe to the linux-kernel
>mailing list for a few days? Or if you don't want your mailbox flooded
>with a hundred incomprehensible posts every day, check out the archives
>of it at
>
> http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/
>
>Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net