-=> Quoting Steve Bennett to Shaun Budding <=-
 >- Speaking of COOKIE, Shaun Budding said this to Mike Simm on 16 Mar 97  
20:26
 SB> -< 
 SB> Just thought I would BUTT in, I have seen the movie HACKERS and it is
 SB> the BEST movie... Too bad about the TRY-HARD computer viruses hey...
 SB> Hi Shaun,
 SB> Mind if I butt in too?  I hate to say it but, no matter what hackers
 SB> did it was nothing like the ridiculous plot in Independence Day.  In
 SB> that the guy wrote a virus on a mac, uploaded it to an alien space
 SB> craft (which must presumably have been mac too), (and it also took a
 SB> few minutes to up load - might big virus or mighty slow connection
 SB> [just where did they plug their phoneline into anyway]), and the virus
 SB> magically spread throughout all the alien space ships disabling all
 SB> their shields la-la de dah.... 
 SB> Since obviously ID4 had such great computer experts at their disposal,
 SB> you wonder why their computer knowlege on viruses was so crap...
 SB> Just $0.02 from me.
 Id like to quibble with you on that one. One of the stars Jell Goldblum (sp)
 had monitored their transmission, figured out they were using a skip or
 loopback of our signal from our Satelites to hide their presense, & then he
 actually got ahold of their spaceship which we could assume had their code
 & uplink on it so its plausible that it would have worked. I agree on the
 upload time though, Not knowing anything about Macs are they not compatible
 for communicating with other computers if they are just transferring a file?
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