Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 02, 2023

Those who learn stuff in prison, usually end up back in prison.

I don’t even know my own ISP number, but I am not a hacker.

Once a sleaze, always a sleaze!

Uncle Stupidhead has yet to learn about angry little girls. He won’t know what hit him.

Good, another chance to see him go down in flames!!!

Hopefully she hacks them back. (Counter hacks?, rehacks?, hack up a server?)

Somebody suggested Duke the other day. That was close.

When joannie abandoned her children, it messed up their socialization skills, to say the least. This is why her granddaughter has such an antisocial mom.

ISP = Internet Service Provider, eg Talk Talk. And for the middle-aged, AOL.

IP address = Internet Protocol address, eg 92.21.53.74

A very tech savvy friend had his computer probed by someone trying to break in. He traced it back by IP number, a number unique to each computer in the world (not ISP, that is just the internet provider) and disabled the hacker’s computer with some software he had crafted. Done many years ago, not recent.

Perhaps Mr. Trudeau meant to say, “IP address”?

Get him Alex, overwrite his BIOS.

wow… I don’t remember this storyline at all… guess that’s 2 things I’m losing.. can’t remember what the other is…

But now its more rewarding to just go into high end department stores and make off with the loot

An Amtrak conductor, on the SAN JOAQUIN, referred to Wasco State Prison-Reception Center as an institution of higher learning.

Not computer, but FAX. Guy’s phone kept ringing from a FAX dialing his NON-FAX number. He tried to get them to stop but no luck. So he rigged up his Computer to send an endless FAX to their FAX machine. They called asking him to stop and he said he would if they would, never got another wrong number from them. I hated when that use to happen to me years ago.

Gimme back my Beanie Babies!!Carefu.Zekel,the kid’s got a grudge against you.

Not to steal t he man’s nickname,which is probably his only tangible asset,but I think a certain Orange Politician just cornered the m arket on the name “Stupidhead”.

From what we know about him,it could lead us to conclude that he was guilty.

That’s GUILTY!! GUILTY,GUILTY,GUILTY!!!

Here, and in every strip like it, I wish Trudeau had asked for help from someone who actually understands tech so that Alex wouldn’t always be spouting word salad.

Alex has no reason to like you and go easy on you, Uncle Stupidhead.

My apologies to Duke and son for casting aspersions on them. Obviously the idiot with the chapeau is a more pathetic script kiddy. Duke can afford better.

One of the great comic nicknames, Uncle Stupidhead. Alex is alomst as cool as Zonker

What was the goal of this attack?

Agh, what’s he doing out of the pokey?! Didn’t the bounty hunters nab him, finally?!

Reminds me of The Shawshank Redemption: “Yeah. The funny thing is – on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.”

“… from a guy who landed in prison trying it?” she asked.

You can get the grade-school rudiments of crooked behavior on the streets; for high-school-level training, go to prison, where they’ve got specialized instruction in all the different forms of larceny; for college, head to Wall Street, where they’ve learned how to relieve common people of their money with the added bonus of avoiding legal consequences for it; but for grad-school swindling, nothing beats religion, where you can peddle nothing whatsoever, get richly rewarded for it, and be praised for the effort.

Judges will often give a sentence to a drug crime of ‘a year and a day’ so the person will go to a ‘real’ state prison rather than a municipal jail. Presumably to learn their lesson but what I hear from someone who has been through it is what you learn is Drug Selling 101: lesson one— There are two types of sellers, those that use a forklift and those who don’t.

It’s spy vs. spy. The technology improves constantly on both sides. No advantage is longer than momentary.

Pretty sure that was the only thing he learned in prison. How not to go back there? Naaah.

The daughter’s hairstyle looks like mine at that age. Kind of a “get ’er done” with rubber bands style. For those who have better things to do than fuss with make up and hair

And remember—-Donald Trump is indecent until proven guilty.

Mike was surprised anyone would be so stupid as to hack their company computer. Now it’s not so surprising.

Always the person you l̶e̶a̶s̶t̶ most suspect!

Git ’em!