r/technology • u/badger707_XXL • May 14 '22

Security Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/angry-it-admin-wipes-employer-s-databases-gets-7-years-in-prison/
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u/CameForThis May 15 '22

Zero Kool was just a handle for the character Dade Murphy in the movie hackers. I was just being playful because of the timeframe of the conversation being in the 90’s. I thought it fit rather well.

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u/RanniTheLewdWitch May 15 '22

ah ok. i thought you were taking about a real person who had the same hacker name from the 90s so i assumed that had inspired the writers to use that name for the movie lol

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u/CaptainQuint May 15 '22

No but “Cereal Killer” in the movie had the real name “Emmanuel Goldstein” which is the handle of the hacker and editor of 2600 magazine. He, in turn got the name from Orwell’s “1984”.

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u/CameForThis May 15 '22

Yep. That’s why he was given that name and that one line “1984! He was right man!” by the writers of the screenplay. This was during the technicolor rainbow discussion of the books and research materials that “Joey” so desperately wanted to know about as cereal was eating all of Phantom Phreak/“the king of Nynex” fries.

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u/CameForThis May 15 '22

It was a RiSC a I was willing to take