lol, you aren't going to find any real hackers in the yahoo "hacker's lounge". In fact, I think the majority of hackers work by themselves, or maybe with some friends at some 2600 meetings. Hell, I've even trained a few of my closest friends how to "hack" more or less, so at least they have the interest to learn and a firm ground to start on, and is someone I trust working with.

Today, the internet is a very different place then when I was hacking around on the internet as a young kid with his toshiba laptop and more than enough phones to keep me busy hacking apart for weeks. The thing is, no one really understands now what the internet was for. THE INTERNET WAS MADE TO SHARE INFORMATION, NOT TO PROTECT IT. If it's out there, it's open. Fuck passwords, fuck firewalls, fuck encryption, fuck your ssl, fuck your ssh, fuck your dmz, your ids'es, your sql database, and anything else you put out there. If you don't want people reading your sensitive letters, drop them off, mail them, or fax them. If you don't the information on your workstation read, don't hook it up. If you don't want people to figure out what you are saying, say it face to face. If you want to buy something, go down to the damn store. If you don't want people to get your data, don't put it on the internet. You don't just share stuff when you don't want it shared. Don't listen all the commercial bs about uncrackable firewalls and encryption. If it's on the internet, and someone wants the information, they have it. And quite honestly, you should have been more careful. The internet is a public place. That's just my stand on the internet and privacy.

I have other stuff to say too, but I have to get some sleep . And should this be moved out of sensless banter?

(By the way: No one would want to go through your email. There's not much to learn there.)