Why are the threats not attached to the reviews for our amusement?
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On 5/3/13 4:07 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:
> BKWWHACK.RVW 20121009
>
> "World War Hack", Ethan Bull/Tsubasa Yozora, 2012, 978-0-9833670-8-6
> %A Ethan Bull
> %A Tsubasa Yozora
> %C 9400 N. MacArthur Blvd., Suite 124-215, Irving, TX 75063
> %D 2012
> %E Gwendolyn Borgen
> %G 978-0-9833670-8-6 0-9833670-8-6
> %I Viper Entertainment Inc./Viper Comics
> %O U$7.95 [email protected] www.worldwarhack.com
> %O http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0983367086/robsladesinterne
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0983367086/robsladesinte-21
> %O http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0983367086/robsladesin03-20
> %O Audience n- Tech 1 Writing 1 (see revfaq.htm for explanation)
> %P 72 p.
> %T "World War Hack"
>
> Someone (eventually we find out they are backed by the Chinese) has
> hacked into the United States military and government control systems.
> Fortunately, despite being in complete control and untraceable, all
> they seem to want to do is make one military drone act up.
>
> The US government immediately swings into action, and sponsors a
> hacking contest, to try and identify suitably talented young geniuses
> (genii?) to find out what is going on.
>
> It's hard to follow what is going on, since the artwork makes it
> difficult to differentiate between characters. There are young people
> with bad haircuts, and there are other people with suits. Some people
> are female. After that, it gets hard to tell who's who. One of the
> hackers is a government agent, another one has a criminal record but
> seems to be a son of a suited government agent.
>
> Some of the technical and hacking activity is somewhat realistic, but
> other aspects are bizarre, and betray a complete lack of understanding
> of basic technology. For example, at different times a programming
> language gets "hacked" (in the sense of breaking into it), and at
> another time a government administrator can't tell what computer
> language has been used to write a specific program. In the real world
> of programming and hacking neither of these scenarios makes any sense.
> Absent Ken Thompson's famous speech nobody "hacks" a language, and
> generally nobody cares what language has been used to write a utility
> once it is operating. (No programmer ever said LISP was a concise
> language, and there is no way that even a "skin" on top of LISP would
> look like C.) At another point two devices "piggyback" on the same IP
> address, which simply does not work in networking terms.
>
> There are aspects of this story that are realistic. One is that, if
> you are not careful with your systems, someone can penetrate them and
> mess with you. If there are any other useful factors in this story, I
> can't think of them offhand.
>
> (As usual, the draft of this review was submitted to the
> author/publisher for comment prior to publication. I often get rude
> email in response, sometimes threats of physical harm, and once even a
> death threat. [Yes, really.] In this case the publisher has
> threatened unspecified legal action "to protect the copyright on our
> work." I would be interested to see the publisher's reaction to
> counsel explaining the "commentary" aspect of the concept of "fair
> use.")
>
> copyright, Robert M. Slade 2012 BKWWHACK.RVW 20121009
>
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