Re: l33t - the language of pedophiles

Gune wrote:
> The article doesn't say pedos invented it.  It expresses concern that
> pervs could exploit it to hide info from parrents.
> 
> I thought it started as a script-kiddie, wannabe-hacker thing.  "Ha ha,
> you L4m3 d00ds can't understand us h@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"  "The password is id10t".

The jargon file says the following in Chapter 9
<http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/crackers.html>:

| From the early 1980s onward, a flouri****ng culture of local,
| MS-DOS-based bulletin boards developed separately from Internet
| hackerdom. The BBS culture has, as its seamy underside, a stratum of
| ‘pirate boards’ inhabited by crackers, phone phreaks, and warez d00dz.
| These people (mostly teenagers running IBM-PC clones from their
| bedrooms) have developed their own characteristic jargon, heavily
| influenced by skateboard lingo and underground-rock slang. While BBS
| technology essentially died out after the Great Internet Explosion,
| the cracker culture moved to IRC and other Internet-based network
| channels and maintained a semi-underground existence.

[snip]

| This lexicon covers much of cracker slang (which is often called
| “leet-speak”) so the reader will be able to understand both what leaks
| out of the cracker underground and the occasional ironic use by
| hackers.

[description of leet-speak]

cu Thomas
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