Despite my best efforts, I stole some software today. It cant be helped when they price something too expensive for the value-add vs. freeware and the freeware that will be free in 6 months, and a crack comes up on the 2nd click in google. I wanted to pay about $30, they wanted $90. It literally took me 20% of the time to find and apply the crack as it would have to order it and pay with my credit card.

I am a bad person.

I don’t want to be a bad person.   Its just too easy to say no.   If Megan Fox strolled up to you and pushed up on you and pushed your hand to her button, would you say no?   Its that easy sometimes.

I have lost perspective if this is just me or if these are the times, when security lags too far behind accessibility.   I think its just me, cause pretty much no one else i know does this, except other geeks.   I fixed a problem with Beckie’s computer before it had even shut down, I fixed another one before it had even posted.   I QA for friends, I have found bugs in PERL, I solved my Dad’s BSOD sight-unseen in about 5 min and then 5 more min later, I am evaluating a product for a friend next week. This is what I do, puzzles are one of my passions, and I am good at it.   It doesn’t make me above the law, but when the law is based on an essential premise of capability and I am far beyond that capability, am I wrong?

X-Men and Watchmen and Heroes‘ Hiro and every other superhero has had this angst.   If you even have the angst, perhaps you are different?