Speaker: Only better, you didn't get amazed by security.
Leo Laporte: Practically, let's check here with Martin Sargent, time for the Site of the Nite.
Martin Sargent: Thank you Leo. You probably consider yourself at home a good parent. You encourage your children to participate in team sports. You attend your teenager's parties to ensure there is no alcohol in the premises. You monitor their musical taste and television watching. You think you are making all the right moves, but how can you be sure that your son or daughter is not a computer hacker.
Leo Laporte: You are such a narc.
Martin Sargent: Well Leo, at adequacy.org you are going to find a frank discussion of one man's harrowing battle with his son, the computer hacker.
Leo Laporte: Okay.
Martin Sargent: Listen to this, When Peter began to spend whole days on the machine, I became concerned, but Carol advised me to calm down, and that it was only a passing phase. I was content to bow to her experience as a mother, but then our youngest Cindy charged into the living room one night to blurt out, "Peter is a computer hacker!" Can you imagine? Now he has got ten warning signs or how you can determine.
Leo Laporte: What are those?
Martin Sargent: Number one, has your son asked you to change ISPs? He wants to get away from AOL for example, you don't rely on one of those hacker ISPs.
Are you finding programs on your computer that you don't remember installing? Popular hacker software includes Comet Cursor, Bonzi Buddy and Flash.
Leo Laporte: No, he doesn't say that, does he?
Martin Sargent: Yes, he does. Has your child asked for a new hardware?
Leo Laporte: Bonzi Buddy. Oh! I am going to hack with Bonzi Buddy.
Martin Sargent: If your son has requested a new processor from a company called AMD, this is a genuine cause for alarm.
Leo Laporte: Oh! This is a joke, this is a joke.
Martin Sargent: I don't know, can't tell. Does your child read hacking manuals? How much time does your child spend, using the computer each day?
Leo Laporte: Well, more than an hour.
Martin Sargent: Does your son use Quake? Quake is an online virtual reality used by hackers, Leo. Is your son becoming argumentative and surly in his social behavior?
Leo Laporte: What do you mean?
Martin Sargent: Is your obsessed with Lunix?
Leo Laporte: Lunix?
Martin Sargent: Lunix.
Leo Laporte: Lunix.
Martin Sargent: Look at that?
Leo Laporte: I am obsessed with it.
Martin Sargent: It's an illegal hacker operating system; it says it right there in blue.
Leo Laporte: Lunix is an illegal hacker operating system?
Martin Sargent: Has your son radically changed his appearance and finally, is your son struggling academically? I just hope that all you people -- it's not too late; it's not too late to nip this in the bud.
Leo Laporte: You have done a public service for every person out there. Send money to Martin Sargent right now.
Speaker: Narc boy Sargent.
Leo Laporte: Well, I will open up my can of whoop keys on that kid.
Martin Sargent: No hacking, it's un-American.
Leo Laporte: Would you like some suggestions?
Martin Sargent: Yes, please suggest it from your side, so write to martin@techtv.com.
Leo Laporte: Or send him money.
Martin Sargent: Make sure to routinely visit our site in the archive at the screensavers.com and that will be one.
Leo Laporte: Man, you have done America a great service. God bless you and now Megan, anything new?
Megan: Couldn't advise our son and not daughter.
Speaker: The boy.
Female Speaker: Oh! I get it and plus girls would never download Bonzi Buddy because its stupid and we hate it. Okay, so on the web site we asked you to send us your favorite clips from the cute cam when you.
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