[geeks] SPARC proprietary

[wa2egp at att.net]

> Well, not everyone who attacks computers is a script kiddie ... the ones
> who know what they're doing are worthy of respect (not that I like what
> they do, but you have to respect their abilities). Personally I call
> them 'crackers' but I guess the battle over the word is lost.
> 
They are few and far between.  The media makes more hype about the kid
though.  Maybe they don't want to excite the Wall Street crowd.  (Now that's
a paranoid crowd.  I work across the river from them....)

> The media thinks that breaking into computers is difficult despite
> evidence to the contrary. You soon see just how dumb they can be when
> you see them trying x86 exploits against an alpha/sparc/mips.
>
Seen that many times.