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They could have (Score:1)
"...casually wondering aloud why they couldn't do that stuff on their PCs."
They could have done it if they were geeks. I'm a geek and you're a geek but chances are that they are not. Not all gamers are geeks, and not all geeks are gamers.
Being a PC geek, instead of MacStumbler, I have NetStumbler [stumbler.net] installed on my laptop. Oh and I probably would have started with 192.168. simply because every router I've ever owned has had a default address in that range.
They are network geeks :) (Score:3, Insightful)
Windows does not come with Perl, either, so writing a program to scan a network (even if you know it was 192.168), then brute force the password (most routers use the same things) are almost impossible for them.
If I did not want to use Perl, I could have used C, Ruby, or Python. That's stuff that comes on the install discs from Apple.
It is more of a success story for Perl, though, and why every computer should have it available.
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