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When the computer calls your 0wned number, it will pick up and, if your pauses are just right, say "Yes" when the voice-recognition-enabled-software says, "Will you accept the charges?"
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The entire Windows environment is "0wned" and, yet again, odds are in the attacker's favor that no one will ever notice.
SearchWinIT: News on enterprise Windows platforms and applications Kevin Beaver 2009
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Great spot and the irony is almost so perfect that I'm beginning to suspect that someone has 0wned the site.
Balls says he cannot guarantee accuracy of his own words? 2008
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Some say it began as a gaming acronym for "We 0wned the 0ther Team," while others speculate that it arose as a combination of wow and loot — or another version of hoot.
W00t! There It Is 2007
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Apple's got a new iTunes-Pepsi promotion wherein a certain number of Pepsi bottles will have an under-cap coupon good for a "free" (that is to say, heavily restricted and 0wned by paranoid record companies) iTunes Music Store track.
Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives 2005
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Previously on Boing Boing: UK "Superhacker" who 0wned US mil computers faces extradition
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The problem is that once your device vendor sells you out to the studios, they're 0wned.
Boing Boing: December 26, 2004 - January 1, 2005 Archives 2004
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Crooks are sending email to naive office-workers, warning that their computers have been 0wned and demanding small sums of money in exchange for not getting them fired by filling their machines with child-porn.
Boing Boing: December 28, 2003 - January 3, 2004 Archives 2003
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Eli the Bearded sez, Long, detailed writeup of webserver getting 0wned by a sophisticated spammer.
Boing Boing: October 5, 2003 - October 11, 2003 Archives 2003
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In truth, your security perimeter should be drawn around each host, not around the network, since hosts on the network can go rogue (0wned via a trojan, say), and hosts outside of the network can be highly trusted, as when you carry your laptop to some other place and need to connect to machines back home.
Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives 2002
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