Happy new year everyone, hope that this year will be (even) better than the one before. Personally, I spend most of my christmas holidays reading the first book of the Millennium series of Stieg Larsson. Good book in the sense that I found it difficult to stop reading, bit the same that happened (at least to me) with Da Vinci Code.

There was one thing that kept on bothering me though. One of the main caracters in the book is a twentysome year old girl, Lisbeth Salander,who possess a somewhat difficult/dark past and seems to be living in the borders of the society, in a punkish kind a way. Among other things, the girl is an excellent hacker, whish is also where my doubts lie: she seems to be a devoted fan of Apple, or to put it more precisely, Apple’s laptops.

I know that Macs are very popular among designers and composers etc. for a good reason, as well as people who appreciate usability or just want to be cool. However, a hacker with Mac, I don’t know, to me it just seems a little bit odd. Furthermore, the book makes no reference (or at least very little) to Open Source based programmes etc. Then again, I am not an expert on hacking either, so who knows.

By the way, curiously enough, in the book all the bad guys use Windows..

Tags: hacker, Lisbeth Salander, Mac, Stieg Larsson

Category: Observations of some sort

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