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Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:11:33 -0700
From: Laurelai <laurelai@...echan.org>
To: Darren Martyn <d.martyn.fulldisclosure@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: VPN providers and any providers in general...

On 10/3/2011 7:10 AM, Darren Martyn wrote:
> Nothing "wrong" with it per se, I was known to enjoy large bottles of 
> rum during extended coding sessions. Now I can attest to the massive 
> fall-off in "epic skillz" associated with too much alcohol - my code 
> starts OK, gets better, then becomes an epic mess of typoes. I stopped 
> doing that a while back as I realized that it impaired my judgement 
> too much.
>
> Computer crimes are far easier to commit when ones judgement is 
> sufficiently impaired - a lot of people I used to associate with took 
> some form of intoxicant and claimed it made them a "better hacker". 
> (cannabis often being one of the drugs of choice, some claim it 
> allowed them to "visualize" it all better...). I personally reckon 
> that the real reason for this is that it makes it easier to ignore the 
> fact you are doing something "wrong".
>
> TL;DR, intoxicants + misguided computer hackers = bad.
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Laurelai <laurelai@...echan.org 
> <mailto:laurelai@...echan.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/3/2011 4:56 AM, Darren Martyn wrote:
>     > True, I know some hackers who really apply the "Ballmers Peak"
>     > (http://xkcd.com/323/) principle... They simply need to dry up :)
>     >
>     Yeah i know quite a few of those myself.
>
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I know a guy who codes perl on LSD, writes good code too.

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