518 DEAR HACKER

518 DEAR HACKER

Dear 2600: why can u not answer??? how can i get in touch with someone who

can answer my question about hacking into a schools computer and changeing your grade... i will subscribe to your cool magazine if u can tell me how or who i can contact to get this information... well thanks for your time...

VxPLaToNiUM

Just one of many lamebrains who gets into arguments with our email auto-reply that says personal replies aren’t possible.

Dear 2600:

I just love your webpage it’s kool. i wanna get the 2600 magazine. i don’t really understand what you do. are you hackers or what?

Malbushsa Oh no. We’re not falling for that again. You feds think you’re real clever, don’t you?

Dear 2600: I’ve read a letter by Christos Paraskeyopoulos about the country

FYROM which you placed as Macedonia with the abbreviation MAC.

I also read your answer which I found rather disturbing (for me at least) and a bit ironic. I guess you don’t care how the U.N. decides each new country’s name and you call it with the name you decide. I would like to ask you to change the abbreviation MAC with the correct one, which is FYROM. And as far as the part which says: “Unless going around calling countries names like FYROM is your idea of humor,”

I would like to inform you that our idea of humor is going around calling countries names like USA. Varelides Marios

(An angry Greek)

STRANGE RAMBLINGS

That’s actually pretty funny. But the thing is, we call people in our country Americans because it’s part of the USA name. Macedonia is part of the FYROM name yet you don’t want us to call them Macedonians. You’re mad at us for the wrong reason. If the country was called the Former Yugoslav Republic of Idiots, we would call them Idiots but we wouldn’t call them FYROIs. We’d really like to know — what do you call those people who live in that place you don’t like to say? And keep it clean.

Dear 2600: Is there anything I can do with a mac.

NAME Somehow we doubt it.

Dear 2600:

I read your magazine and enjoyed most of the information. In light of the attitudes and commentary, I have several comments.

In the Bible, James 1:16-17 says, “Don’t be deceived, my dear broth- ers. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”

Is hacking a good thing? Are those involved gifted in their computer pursuits? Is the government fickle in the application of the law? Your readership says yes, I believe.

If hacking is inspired and the seed for all our gifts planted by God, why not take the next step and seek the source of the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding you possess?

Patrick Good idea. When they come for us, we’ll just say God is the ringleader of the con-

spiracy. Get us some more Bible quotes so we can justify this.