Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore @ Wired

This article is 5 pages long and I would strongly suggest that you read every word because he is spot on.

Why do kids like Dictate do it? Mostly just for lulz: to fuck shit up and watch it burn. One favorite goal is merely to piss off people by posting racist or otherwise offensive messages on their personal accounts. As Dictate explains, “Racism invokes a funnier reaction in people. Hacking, people don’t care too much. When we jacked @jennarose3xo”—aka Jenna Rose, an unfortunate teen singer whose videos got widely hate-watched in 2010—”I got no reaction from just tweeting that I jacked her stuff. We got a reaction when we uploaded a video of some black guys and pretended to be them.” Apparently, sociopathy sells.

A lot of these kids came out of the Xbox hacking scene, where the networked competition of gamers encouraged kids to learn cheats to get what they wanted. In particular they developed techniques to steal so-called OG (original gamer) tags—the simple ones, like Dictate instead of Dictate27098—from the people who’d claimed them first

Eventually there will be better ways to prove who you are followed by more advanced ways to steal them, it would seem sometimes the old ways are best.  The bottom line is you are you until someone decides they like what you have, after that, there is nothing.

Kinda poetic don't you think?

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