Tag: terminated with extreme prejudice

  1. This isn't quite a William Gibson/Near Stephenson cyberpunk world, but you can see the lights of it from here.

    08 June 2009

    There's a certain feeling a system admin gets when they find out that one of their boxen has been pwned. You can't really compare it to anything else but it seems to combine the worst symptoms of cardiac arrest, realizing that someone's just shot at you and not missed, being busted by military police while carrying, and discovering that you slept through your thesis defense. A personal website falling is bad enough, but when you're talking about an operation that's worth six or seven digits in American dollars you just know that heads were rolling.

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