[Vanhackspace] CBC - The Current - hackers at work

[Luke Closs]

My reaction was similar - it seems like they're using the word
'hacker' in an different way than VHS uses it.

Luke

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:20 PM, David Eaman <exman at telus.net> wrote:
> I'd be a bit careful here.  Have you listened to The Current?  It's a hard
> news show and they might be digging for 2600-type stuff , "scary young
> wizards of anarchy in their dungeons, dismembering our fine upstanding
> institutions" rather than Make Magazine things.  Just a thought...
> m david
>
> =======================================================
> "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is
> sure." - Mark Twain
>
> Graham Mitchell wrote:
>
> Hi, folks,
>
> I haven't participated a whole lot in VHS save for the first couple of
> meetings where things were being set up - mostly lack of time nowdays - but
> I've been lurking on the mailing list since then. Just thought I'd pass
> along a message from a neighbor of a friend who's with the CBC and is
> looking for stuff to add to an upcoming story on The Current (morning radio
> show on CBC Radio One) re: hackers at work (i.e., in the workplace). The
> examples given don't seem to demonstrate much in the way of technical
> knowhow but I imagine she'd be interested in more technical stuff (at least
> of the variety that can be reduced into layman's terms) as well. Anyway,
> here's her message:
>
> ---
>
> So The Current, a big time national show here at the CBC, is doing a story
> on cyber hackers or cyber gurus at work. People who have the best intentions
> and are really computer savvy and find ways to work around some impossible
> situations set up by the company.
>
> They get through firewalls in the name of efficiency.
>
> There's an example of a women who was frustrated with never being able to
> get her crew into courses. she found an online version and gave the course
> herself and certified them herself.
>
> Another guy was frustrated with the performance management objectives set
> out for him, so he found another way to set goals by researching online and
> send those to management. after being scoffed they ended up adopting the
> alternative system.
>
> Do you know anyone who's done stuff like this? Who work in an impossible
> machine but figure out ways to get stuff down outside the system of the
> machine?
>
> Let me know either way.
> Cheers
> T
>
> Theresa Lalonde
> Online and Interactive Reporter
> CBC Vancouver
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> 778-839-5520 c
>
> facebook = Theresa LalondeWork
> twitter = @lalondetcbc
>
> ---
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graham
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