Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/12/vigilante-server-administrator.html
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Hi Alexey, Please come fix my network. My IP address is…
A few said “thanks,” but most were outraged.
The very definition of idiocy
Listen kid, we’re all in it together.
We are actually living in a parody of a dystopia.
If you would have told me that we will have vigilante severadministartors 10 years ago I would have laught at you.
Strange days, indeed…
Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear grey hats.
Or white hats
Excuse me I was clearly a minute ahead of you
Big, fat like for the picture!
I wonder if he’d actually get happier responses if he rebranded as a ‘proactive cloud-centric solutions provider’ and sent invoices rather than polite explanations.
He is a Knight of the rainbow table.
That was the best image to use for the article, that I could imagine, @frauenfelder.
Guy’s name was Tuttle? Buttle? Something like that.
This is exactly what happens in Cory Doctorow’s “Knights of the Rainbow Table”.
Good thing I scrolled down. I was about to post something about that.