Thu, 21 Aug 2008
Lamers
Kragen Sitaker and his wife Beatrice were very gracious in hosting me and my brother for a week in Buenos Aires.
I was looking for something on Kragen's website and found a ten-years-old discussion of how to find security problems in software. In it, he writes:
Body text last updated 1998-07-22. Recently has become the most popular page of mine, presumably because a bunch of lamers want to learn how to break into things. [...]
I wouldn't be surprised if calling 100-200 people a day `lamers' results in electronic attacks on me or my machine (kragen.dnaco.net.) All I can say is that people who do this would thereby demonstrate their lamosity.
Lamers, you say? Nelson took this picture of me a few years back. Look at the thumbs-up from the driver!
(Photo available for re-use under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0.)
Note: Mako addressed this topic earlier this year, and then again more recently.
