{"id":83,"date":"2006-04-27T16:05:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T23:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/alien-nations-for-the-rich\/"},"modified":"2006-04-27T16:05:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T23:05:33","slug":"alien-nations-for-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Alien Nation&#039;s For The Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please forgive the awkward They Might Be Giants pun. Coachella is this weekend, and I&#8217;m just music-drenched.<\/p>\n<p>This kid from Britain used security exploits in off-the-shelf Windows to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060427\/sc_nm\/security_britain_hacker_dc_1\" target=\"_blank\">HACK INTO THE U.S. MILITARY&#8217;S COMPUTER SYSTEMS.<\/a> He cites WarGames as an inspiration. I guess the days of a giant greenish room with massive banks of processors are long gone, and those charged with protecting our nation are just making do with fucking off-the-shelf eMachines? Do they just scan the Best Buy and CompUSA ads every week to wait for the best deal? Maybe they buy used on Craigslist?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, Jesus H.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this kid claims he saw evidence that the government is harboring alien technology. I&#8217;m not quite sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, why would he lie? He&#8217;s in the news regardless cause he hacked into our computers and gained access to our military secrets through a FUCKING WINDOWS-BASED MACHINE I COULD PROBABLY BUY AT WAL-MART.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, crazy enough to hack into the US military&#8217;s computers after 9\/11 probably equals crazy enough to invent aliens.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t know what to think anymore.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/Portal.gif\" alt=\"wiki\" \/><strong>WikiWikiWhack:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WarGames\" target=\"_blank\">WarGames<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/They_might_be_giants\" target=\"_new\">They Might Be Giants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please forgive the awkward They Might Be Giants pun. Coachella is this weekend, and I&#8217;m just music-drenched. This kid from Britain used security exploits in off-the-shelf Windows to HACK INTO THE U.S. MILITARY&#8217;S COMPUTER SYSTEMS. He cites WarGames as an inspiration. I guess the days of a giant greenish room with massive banks of processors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}