The bible of phreaking faithful Computer security's rock 'n' roll pioneer Winn Schwartau relaxes at home in Seminole. The focus of his books and lectures is that the country's growing dependence on computers has outgrown our ability to manage and secure them. Now he makes money taming that threat. It's a title Tampa Bay's Winn Schwartau does not wear lightly.
Hackers also are big on abbreviations and revised spelling.
Hacker lingo is so pervasive, there's even the New Hacker's Dictionary , recently published in its third edition. It's a loop error that results in repetition. Someone new to the Internet or to a particular subject. They are the pixels that are not properly restored on a PC screen when a computer mouse is moved. The game starts on the first evening of the DefCon convention, the country's biggest annual gathering for hackers.