Was "War Games" based on real-life?

From: Philip Pemberton <philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com>
Date: Thu Sep 26 11:21:01 2002

chris wrote:
>> WAP hacking is the new frontier. It's just too damn easy.
> That makes it ideal for today's script kiddies... er um... sorry,
> "hackers"... I wouldn't want to have one of those 13 year olds throw a
> temper tantrum because I didn't use his prefered term.
While we're on the subject of script kiddies, I had one send me an ICQ IM.
"I will throw you off the internet". A quick tracert later and I find he's
on AOL using a dialup modem. I've got a 256k up/512k down ADSL line. He
ended up consuming 18% of my incoming bandwidth with his ping-flood. I sent
his ping flood back at him. His words - "you th1nk dat willl stoop me?
wimp". I started another ping session and he dropped off of ICQ. Wonder why?
Then there was the stupid kiddie who tried to Back Orifice my machine...

Later.
--
Phil.
philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
Received on Thu Sep 26 2002 - 11:21:01 BST

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