Čollective №thing

Hackers are depicted by the media as criminals.  It's a sad truth that hackers have to live with and will always fight against.  But to better describe the hidden culture that mainstream media has no interest in discovering, here is my own personal analogy. My original analogy was that Hackers are like Butchers.   They both have skills that most people don't choose to learn.   They are both artists in their own way.    A butcher uses a potentially dangerous set of tools referred to as knives, most typically the butcher knife.    A hacker uses a set of potentially dangerous tools known as code, but most typically referred to as computers. But why is a Hacker a criminal while a butcher is not?  While some people think it's a stupid question, there are many hackers that are still baffled by this question.   So here is my latest analogy that will be easier on the comic book movie fans. Hackers are like superheros.   They do things that most everyone cannot do and achieve

It's rare when you get those moment's of calling someone's bluff and slapping them in the face with it....it's even more fun when that someone is a greedy utility like SRP and APS.

The internet has lots of free crap but sometimes publishers go to extra efforts to ensure you can't save anything from their site so you will either subscribe and give them money, or to prevent bots from duplicating their site so someone else can get paid. All good reasons, but sometimes I just want to save a picture for later and I don't like bookmarking all that much.  But thanks to sites that disable the right-click option, I can't just right-click and "save as..." for these images.   But, if I can see the picture in my browser, then I can save it if I really want to.  And thanks to the newer browsers implementing advanced debugging, it's even easier than it used to be.  Yes, you CAN just use a screenshot program.  But that will only allow you to save the resolution of which the HTML code is presenting it while displayed in your browser.   If you download the actual image, you can get the full resolution and in some cases you can get around javascript t