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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 14:39:13 -0700
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the hacker is a figment of Nick's imagination, or rather a
> consequence of his broken python code corrupting his data.

Unless the Python installation on Nikos' system has become self-aware
and is actively objecting to his code, I think that messages like
"Read a manual" and "Learn to code" inserted into a database (as seen
in the images that Nikos linked earlier) would normally suggest a
hacker.