Being in the industry that I’m in, I’ve had the fortune and subsequent misfortune of meeting a few h4x0r5 (hackers). Some of them have become good friends, and some of them I’ve grown to hate. And an even smaller collective have become providers… (sshhhhh!)
To any extent, I’ve become introduced to their society and most specifically to their language and I was just wondering if anyone out there knew any d3wd 5p34k (dude speak).
If you don’t, I can share what I know with you. Mind you, I’m by no means the foremost expert on the subject, (Being nothing but a lowly Cr4x0r(Cracker) to my h4x0r5 friends) but I know my fair share.
Once again, just mindless pointless stuff that happens to wander around Simetra’s brain box.
Oh yeah, my personal favorite is the h4x0r5 pick up line,
“y0 b17ch, d0 m3” (Yo bitch, do me.) That’s just friggin’ hilarious.
I work in telecom right now, but I’m an ex SA. We went to conferences all the time. I met plenty of hackers and ex-hackers, many of whom are either doing government work(no shit, but it’s not like a conspiracy or anything) or touring the country doing security siminars. I’ve never encountered any of them who used dude speak or whatever. I know this is stereotypical, but the only times I’ve ever been exposed to d3wd 5p34k was from h4x0r5 who didn’t know their keyboards from their assholes. These guys wren’t hackers, they were people(usually kids) who ripped off everybody else’s hard work. They spent their time looking for the easiest port to hop in through and were too lazy to do their own damn research. If it couldn’t be done with some lame-ass utility, they couldn’t do it. Typically, these guys also spent a lot of their time trying to destroy whatever they ‘hacked’ into. None of the guys I ever associated with would ever do something like that. I’m not saying all this necesarily mimics your case, but it’s been my experience.
Oh it’s cool. Those few h4x0r5 that I mentioned I’m not on the friendliest terms with are like that. Just stupid kids who think it’s fun to 74G, and then I have to clean up their mess. Oh well.
Some of the others, the ones I like, are the kind that just get the thrill out of finding flaws in anything. They’re the best people to get to desk-check code, and proof-read anything. Oh well. Just thought I’d share…
That’s what I like them for. I have a couple of friends who made careers looking for security holes in new software. They both only speak at conventions now, since they have some much frickin’ money, but they were good and in demand.
Oh thank god. I thought another one of my posts was in the wrong place.
I wish you coulda seen me scrambling to open this post, hoping that UncleBeer wasn’t displeased with me yet again. Wow, the power of the moderator.
Just a final thought…
Whether you call them script-kids, plur-hacks, h4x0r5, or 5l1p5. It’s still a cool language bred of desire, and I will still r0x0r5 j00!
The only thing I can tell you Ren, is that l337 means “elite”. But I’m sure you already knew that.
As far as I can tell some h4x0r prolly decided that they were the best out there, and just started it. And it spread. If anyone knows actually where it came from I’d give them 1000 cool points.
Yes, this is all too true. These kids are just about the most annoying thing on the web. They talk this was in chat too…and they will ICQ you with all this fucking jibber-jabber. I call it “B1FF syndrome” in reference to the old-school parody of these idiots. Luckily it’s something that you grow out of, but make no mistake about it, they ARE NOT REAL HACKERS just posers or worse…warez d00dz.
:rolleyes: