"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works."

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"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works."

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"I use a really simple calendar program on my computer."

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"See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy."

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"Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?"

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