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__Transmission__ by Hari Kunzru, "...the bulletin boards confirmed that more or less anyone with a record for computer crime was being taken in for questioning, from old-school superstars the Mittnicks and Poulsens, to script kiddies who had been caught defacing corporate web sites..."(148).
Explanation:
"Script kiddie" refers to people with little technical knowledge who use easy to operate automated tools and code in order to launch online attacks, such as the use DOS attacks, worms, trojans etc. Unable to program well, if at all, script kiddies are entirely dependent on the more experienced hackers and crackers who actually write the code and tools and discover the exploits the kiddies use to create online havoc. In the realm of hacker culture and the hacker social hierarchy, script kiddies are considered the lowest of the low, skill-less ‘newbs’ who simply hunt for easy targets.
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