On Thursday 18 October 2001 13:18 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:51:53 +0100, Peter Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 October 2001 16:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > >where sysadmins who were
> > > fooled into paying $$$ for an MCSE think that they're so 133+
> > > that they're invulnerable.
> >
> > </snip.
> >
> > Excuse the ignorance, but what's 133+ ?
> >
> > Regards
>
> Crackers have their own 'language' ("leet speak"), consisting of
> their own slang and variations of standard English words. Letters
> are often replaced with similar-looking ASCII characters.
>
> "133+" means "leet", which is short for "elite".
>
> Script kiddies like to use this language to sound "1337" (yet
> another of many ways to spell "leet").
>
> Sometimes one letter is replaced with several ASCII characters to
> 'draw' the character. For example, "|-|" is the letter "H", and
> "|\|" is the letter "N".
>
> Here's a longer example:
>
> 4|)V4|\|C3D l3e+ $peA|< i$ whEn J00 +4lK L1K3 t|-|!5. t0
> u|\|d3r$+@|\|D jOo
>
> |\/|u5+ be lEET. 1f J00 4r3 NO+ lEe+ jOO C@|\|N0T 5p3A|< 0r ReAd
> | +|-|I5.
>
> Literal translation:
>
> "Advanced leet speak is when you talk like this. To understand you
> must be leet. If you are not leet you cannot speak or read this."
>
> Your homework for today: Try to decipher my sig! :)
>Sridhar Dhanapalan
> phj34r my 5kr1p7 k!1d13 haxX0r 73kn!q. ! 0wn j0o ll4m@ +00|z
OK
I'm learning something here, but ph34r and ll4m@ have got me beat.
Like to help me out .
Thanks
petew
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