About black holes and brain dead reporters
Warning: cynic content to follow.
Another big step for science and for the world. Italy’s second most widespread
daily paper has announced a new discovery that will change our lives. Not only parallel universes exist where a newspaper selling more that 600.000 copies a day and with almost 3mln readers would employ people who know what they are talking about, but they have also discovered the existence of parallel web pages and gigantic black holes.
Now, would La Repubblica’s consultant hacker be so kind and send me the technical definition for a parallel web page? Thank you.
And whilst we are there, would he be so kind to tell the whole world what it can do with a super secret bank routing number?
Maybe your hacker wants the last digits of my credit card number or my username? I can tell him, he doesn’t have to spend time setting up a stargate or some parallel Cheshire doughnut.
Oh and btw., you do know what “cross site scripting” means, do you? And you will also know that not a single website (unless written by a one year — in human years — old brain dead amoeba) would store passwords but only (add a fancy keywork like parallel, black hole, ipod, cookie, dildo, brain dead raccoon) hashes.
Guys, I don’t have enough fantasy and my (two) brain cells did not listen to Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother long enough, but could you imagine the Times, the New York Times, Spiegel, Le Monde or El Pais (sorry, don’t know any more newspapers) entitling the second headline of the day “In eBays big black hole” and talking about parallel pages and a hacker who told them he could steal their bank routing number (what a business!) or eBay password?
That’s weak.
Oh, and what are these “keys used to interact with the website’s official graphic” that eBay would give you? They didn’t give me any keys, those bastards!
And Edoardo Viti, of Milan’s Revenue Guard Corps could not stop himself from saying that most hackers are “Romanians who learned to use the Computer in the 80es thanks to Ceausescu’s programs for a technological growth of the country”.
I won’t argue with Mr. Viti’s knowledge of his job, and I won’t ask why all those high-tech Romanians are emigrating to avoid starving whilst they could just sit in front of their sparkling new MacBook, but I would dare and call such a news article racist.
That’s all folks.
I’d just like to excuse myself with all the honest Romanian people. We don’t have black people to blame, so it had to be - in turn - southern Italians, Albanian and well it’s your turn in the news now.
PS: if you keep using Microsoft Corporation products you should not wonder if someone gets your super secret Bank Routing Number. Hackers and so-called hackers can do a lot of damage, but writing bullsh** is not the best way to deal with it.
Tell people to use quality software or to avoid clicking on a link that says “iBey.com” or to click on an email telling you that someone wants you to enter your password or CC number. Italy is probably the “Western country” where “digital culture” is still a taboo and it’s you bullsh**-loving reporters and our retirement aged political class we should be blaming. Not Romanians.