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May 22, 2008

Feel like god

srikanth @ 8:58 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1211489914 ) Play

What commonly used phrase in cracker/script-kiddie slang connects these three?

Cracked by Ajay Parasuram , varuns88 , Dibyo and madhur.

Answer:
“Hack the Gibson”

In the movie Hackers (1 – Jolie in Hackers) the protagonist Dade Murphy/Zero cool (Inspired by R T Morris – 2) tries to hack into a fictional Gibson supercomputer (named after William Gibson – 3) to save the day.

12 Responses to “Feel like god”

  1. akhi Says:

    Hackerz ?

    akhi

  2. akhi Says:

    no wait not sure… black hat ?

    akhi

  3. Ajay Parasuram Says:

    Hack the Gibson


  4. prasanth Says:

    hackers


  5. varuns88 Says:

    connecting phrase -> Hack the Gibson?

    1.Jolie as Kate Libby in the movie Hackers.
    2.Robert Tappan Morris,creator of the Morris worm,the first computer worm on internet
    3.William Gibson,sci-fi author

    varuns88

  6. Ashish Says:

    Phreaking!

    Ashish

  7. Dibyo Says:

    “Hack the Gibson”

    Dibyo

  8. madhur Says:

    Hack the Gibson

    madhur

  9. jayanth Says:

    characters in the movie ‘hackers’.. so i’d got for the connect as ‘hackers’

    jayanth

  10. jayanth Says:

    ok.. jolie acted in hackers.. rtm coined the term hackers

    jayanth

  11. RajT Says:

    without patience to google and at the grave risk of sounding downright stupid, i’ll hazard a guess:

    w00t


  12. srikar Says:

    Is it “Playing God”?

    srikar

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