Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThe original story was written before the Internet and so before hackers even existed. One of Stephen King’s cocaine fever dreams iirc.
Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThe original story was written before the Internet and so before hackers even existed. One of Stephen King’s cocaine fever dreams iirc.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Hackers predate the Internet. Phone phreaking, like the Captain Crunch whistle is basically the origin of hacking and hacker culture.
But your larger point is valid and there was probably more than a little cocaine involved with thinking up that story.
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TIL