Talk:792: Password Reuse
And now it turns out that Google gives our data to NSA....sigh. 24.7.241.154 07:58, 11 June 2013 (UTC)Monica
What happened in March of 1997? MR (talk) 18:23, 4 April 2013 (UTC)MR
Hi! After consulting Wikipedia's article about March 1997 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997), I think there are two main incidents Black Hat could refer to:
- The Phoenix Lights, a group of supposed UFOs, turned out to be probably military aircrafts.
- The mass suicide committed by 39 Heaven's Gate cultists.
Since we know little about Black Hat's life in 1997, we could argue that he was expecting an extra-terrestrial contact or that he was attracted by the ideas of that creed - and that the disillusion brought him his present disbelief in things. Of course those are just hypotheses, and don't seem to fit the character as we know him...Inverno1407 (talk) 11:30, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
- I honestly believe that he created the Heaven's Gate cult and he views their mass suicide as his crowning achievement in getting people to believe things, it just isn't getting any better than that, so he doesn't believe in anything anymore. 173.245.54.32 13:03, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
- "In the conclusion, Black Hat reveals that the only thing he's doing with all his hacked user accounts is to post slightly inaccurate content on Wiki sites."
This paragraph has been present since this explanation was added. I can't see how it is arrived at from the comic. (So I wonder who User:148.87.67.212 might have been...) Mark Hurd (talk) 14:10, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
I removed some slightly inaccurate content from this wiki. It was the bit about Black Hat posting slightly inaccurate content on wiki sites.86.40.93.217 00:33, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Does anyone know if he had anything to do with the article on "taking the piss"?
I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 16:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
How does this compare in light of 792:Password Reuse? Saibot84 (talk) 05:06, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
The "March 1997" issue is still a mystery to me. May be a global computer virus attack? I will go through all days on wikipedia. The month summery presents not the solution.--Dgbrt (talk) 17:27, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Conisdering how blackhat loves messing with people, I seriously doubt anything at all hapened in March 1997. He's just messing with us! 189.5.106.228 02:43, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Oooo, I dunno. Given Black Hat's odd tastes, *anything* from March 1997 could have caused him to lose his faith: Paul McCartney being knighted, Tom Cruise winning an Oscar, the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments on Internet Indecency, India's Ministry of Charity choosing a successor to Mother Theresa, Gene Roddenberry's ashes going into orbit, the Brazil Senate finally allowing women members to wear slacks... Anything!! [[1]]
- Wow, look at this historical CNN page: http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/03/19/scotus.cda/. The Communications Decency Act is the most likely item from your list.--Dgbrt (talk) 08:21, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
- 39 Heaven's Gate cultists committed mass suicide
- If he was upset at causing their deaths or having accomplished their deaths, has little to prove now nor reason to repeat the act, he is on pause; we wait.
- I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 16:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
- I would say that he lostall belief in his sadistic powers when tthese cultists killed themselves: People kill themselves without any need of his evil scheming, and he obviously expect himself to be the pinnacle of that. That event is pretty much showing him that he is simply not needed. 172.70.250.189 08:21, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
My opinion is that Black Hat referred to Bill Clinton banning federal funding for research on human cloning in March 1997. 108.162.242.5 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- How would that create an hiatus in Back Hat's career?
I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 16:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hey! I though I'd throw in the opinion that perhaps March 1997 was a month of personal importance to Black Hat rather than anything societal. If the 1997 coincides with any of those standard "loss of idealism and innocence years" for Black Hat, then I'd say that's pretty likely what Randall was going for. 108.162.216.209 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Hi - the last line about the TV show DIBS is wrong. DIBS came out in 2014 - the comic in 2010. What the last panel is referring to is calling dibs on the TV to play CoD4. 108.162.218.53 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Google's "don't be evil" is no more
Google removed that "don't be evil" thing from their motto...
- password change intensifies*
172.68.10.172 06:35, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
TV Tropes links to this comic as an example of one of the strips that have aged the worst. LendriMujina (talk) 19:16, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
As of 2022 as I write, Google has now set itself up to be the password manager for random non-Google web sites, so they have many peoples' credentials. Of course, Microsoft followed their usual practice and did the same thing, but not quite as seamlessly. Nitpicking (talk) 11:55, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
