On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:24:35 +0100, Peter Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
Sure thing.
phj34r = fear
The letter "j" is usually either silent or pronounced like a "y" (e.g. "j0o" =
"you")
ll4m@ = llama
A "llama" is a "luser" or "loser".
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
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