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| Thread ID: 95305 | 2008-12-01 21:36:00 | Super Hacker Wants to be next Bill Gates | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 724758 | 2008-12-01 21:36:00 | A Whitianga teenager who hacked into a United States university computer says he would ultimately like to start his own company and become the next Bill Gates . Owen Thor Walker told 60 Minutes he would never again hack illegally . He was staying on the Coromandel writing software for a tiny company and ultimately would like to start his own company and be the next Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) . His mother Shelley Moxham-Whyte, said he had learned to read at aged three, and after he was teased at school she taught him at home . At 15 he built his own computer and got on line . He bought a book on computer programming and taught himself how to do it overnight . During eight months hacking, Walker said he made about $40,000 . "I spent it on toys like a new computer, an X-Box, games, buying pizzas for friends and stuff . " Sigh . If reading at 3, building your own PC and learning stuff at home makes you a genius, then so am I . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 724759 | 2008-12-01 21:41:00 | can say that again. Just exactly what was he doing to make that amount of money? |
mabix (10146) | ||
| 724760 | 2008-12-01 21:45:00 | Sigh. If reading at 3, building your own PC and learning stuff at home makes you a genius, then so am I. Wait, are you calling Bill Gates a genuis? Bill Gates made lots of money, so did this kid. Look at it that way lol |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 724761 | 2008-12-01 22:23:00 | He bought a book on computer programming and taught himself how to do it overnight . Sigh . If reading at 3, building your own PC and learning stuff at home makes you a genius, then so am I . I doubt you, or any of us, are gifted enough to learn something overnight from a book that other relatively intelligent people takes months or years to learn . IMHO the judge showed rare good sense to give him another chance . |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 724762 | 2008-12-01 22:24:00 | The whole thing ended rather well for him really. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 724763 | 2008-12-02 01:14:00 | no remorse shown however, so should he be forgiven/let off so lightly... Doesnt really send a good message to other hackers does it. |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 724764 | 2008-12-02 02:51:00 | Indeed, where has the 'lock them up and throw away the key' brigade got to around here? | shermo (12739) | ||
| 724765 | 2008-12-02 03:47:00 | He was quite a nice cute boy. Not many more killer apps to come out though ! And Google offers them all for free. Yes when you think of all the time "we" spend on anti-virus, firewalls and anti spyware programs just trying to keep hackers out of our machines he got off far too lightly. Once again no deterrent. If those things did not exist our machines would run sweet with very few problems ! |
Digby (677) | ||
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