What has always bugged me is the disgraceful grammar that both the
so-called "hackers" and their critics employ flagrantly.

Case-in-point: I would change the following, 'What always bugged me was how
poor spelling these so called "hackers" display,' to 'What always bugs me
is the poor spelling habits of these so-called "hackers."' ;-)

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On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Richard Ward wrote:
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> David, From what I can see, it looks as if they've just guessed a possible weak
> password in the 'juha' account. Most defacement "hackers" wouldn't pass up
> an opportunity to deface the main domain, if they had access to it. I don't
> think that users.uk.freebsd.org was compromised to give these people any
> special access above a user account. That's just my opinion. However, I
> would alert the users.uk.freebsd.org administration about this as soon as
> possible; for it shouldn't be taken lightly.
>
> What always bugged me was how poor spelling these so called "hackers" display.
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