The Geek Test...

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Thu Nov 6 04:28:44 2003

>>> http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html
> Geeky enough that I can't use the damned thing because the twerp that
> wrote it only allows the use of JavaScript to do the point counting,
> and my browser is so old it doesn't support that :P

Ah, that would explain why I couldn't find what link to hit to get my
results. (I use lynx.)

Assuming it's purely a number-of-boxes percentage (which seems likely
given the way a few questions have multiple boxes, of which you are
supposed to check all or none), my score is...umm...341/506=67.391+%,
or 342/507=67.4556+% if I count the "hacked into" question, which I am
inclined not to do both because it is so misworded and because of the
three incidents that could support a yes answer to the question it was
intended to ask, two required no real hacking skill at all (one was
pure social engineering, based on knowing someone well enough to guess
a password; the other was not quite believing that a reported hole was
as severe as it was without seeing it work myself) and the third, while
requiring hacking skill, really involved no unauthorized access - just
being too impatient to wait several hours for the person who would have
given me access.

What does that make me? One of the last three (Extreme Geek or worse),
based on other scores seen on the list; I'm too lazy to pick apart the
javascript to find out where the edges of the score buckets are.

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