Snoop Dogg Joins the War On Cybercrime 164
wiredmikey writes "Think you can bust out some silly fresh rhymes on the subjects of hacking, identity theft and computer viruses? In a somewhat untraditional partnership, Snoop Dogg and Symantec's Norton want you to show off your their lyrical skills on the subject of cybercrime and enter the 'Hack is Wack' cybercrime rap contest. If you have the skills and bust out the phattest rap, you'll receive round trip airfare for two to Los Angeles along with two days and two nights' hotel stay to meet with Snoop's management, learn more about his business. You'll also get two tickets to a Snoop Dogg concert and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011."
inb4 (Score:2)
You'll also get two tickets to a Snoop Dogg concert and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011.
Well, that one's too easy...
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Just hack into the compo results DB and change the winning entry's contact details to faux ones that you have access to. Easy winnings!
Prostitution (Score:5, Funny)
and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011
"Pimped out" with Norton...is that like a hooker with free syphilis on the side?
Re:Prostitution (Score:5, Funny)
No.
Its like a fat hooker you picked up while drunk with free syphilis and gonorrhea that cries after she's had sex then won't leave after you pay her twice to do so once you've sobered up.
Re:Prostitution (Score:5, Funny)
And keeps coming back for more money every year.
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Bonus points to the first person who rips off the song "You give love a bad name" for the chorus (You give hacking a bad name).
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Installing anything from Norton... (Score:5, Informative)
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Well, since they only sell trial versions, yes, it is only a trial.
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At least it's not McAffee...
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At least my Linux is not Windows.
Word (Score:5, Funny)
Says to Hack is Whack
Well WTF he know
'bout anything like dat?
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Chorus:
Wuts up with that
don't let your computer get whacked
just do it right and
send the Norton back
Don't wanna get hacked
send the Norton back
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Sung in the key of Shatner, please.
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And as for Snoop Dog,
don't get me started.
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ALMOST Haiku...
Try this?
Norton retarded
And as for Snoop Doggy Dog
Don't get me started!
updog (Score:2)
Yo dawg,
I is getting all platypus wit da anti-vi-ruse
I used to sell crack to da wack,
but now I'm back to stab some hack in da back.
selling you trash FO da mass which gets all slow on ya ass.
Dre 2020.
Am I the only one? (Score:1)
And for 2nd place... (Score:2)
...you get three nights in LA and a meeting with Snoop himself!
3rd place... (Score:2)
Free Norton products for life!
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... but can it run on GNU/Linux?
funny... (Score:5, Insightful)
How we see prostitutes as shameful, prostitution as sad, yet pimps as the gold standard of cool.
A laptop "pimped out" with Norton? WTF?
Bitch BETTER have my query!
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"How we see prostitutes as shameful, prostitution as sad, yet pimps as the gold standard of cool."
Consider that a skilled pimp is a brilliant social engineer. Consider his ho's "lusers", and that isn't hard to understand. Being able to talk your way into that kind of power is certainly attractive.
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Being able to talk your way into that kind of power is certainly attractive.
Talk?
You mean that if violence and drugs were involved that would make it unattractive?
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Significantly less attractive at any rate.
It was inevitable (Score:2)
Re:It was inevitable (Score:5, Funny)
Poop Dog?
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Snoop has finally jumped the shark [wikipedia.org].
Jumping the shark has finally jumped the shark when you link to a wikipedia article about jumping the shark. Dawg.
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You mean his Chrysler ad (with Lee Iacocca) didn't jump the shark for him?
If the car is fly, you must buy!
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Slow to the Game (Score:4, Informative)
This reminds me of MC Lars' "We've Arrived."
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1. you think 'Snoop' approached Symantec/Norton on this, rather than the other way around?
2. who?*
* spoken from the point of view of a marketing person.
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We could say much the same thing for Snoop Dogg these days.
Not to mention that the people with hacking skills are the ones most likely to know about nerdcore.
But, oh right, this isn't about cybercrime. This is about selling Norton software. Which is why they aren't using icons that hackers might actually respond to.
Consequizzles... (Score:1, Funny)
...will never be the sizame.
He's going to backtrizzle your emizzles and contact the cybercizzles. If you pirated his trizzles, you don' gizzled.
This sounds familiar (Score:2)
"Don't Copy That Floppy" Part 2! It was a stupid idea then, and it hasn't improved with age.
Also, Snoop Dogg has just signed his name to the roster of formerly cool stars embarrassing themselves by remaining in the public eye long past their sell-by date. Doing this kind of lame public (dis)service crap is like wearing a neon sign saying "IRRELEVANT" in glowing foot-high letters.
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Also, Snoop Dogg has just signed his name to the roster of formerly cool stars
Snoop Dog was cool? When did that happen?
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Oh come on, he was pretty fucking cool when he worked with Dr. Dre to make The Chronic, back in 1992. That was a great album.
Doggystyle, Snoop's first real studio album, came out in 1993 and it wasn't bad. It definitely had its cool moments. But yeah, I think it's been mostly downhill since then for him in terms of "cool".
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Oh come on, he was pretty fucking cool when he worked with Dr. Dre to make The Chronic, back in 1992. That was a great album.
I thought he was known as Snoop Doggy Dogg back then, not Snoop Dogg?
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"Foster child case 98432."
Re:This sounds familiar (Score:4, Informative)
Snoop Dog was cool? When did that happen?
You're very young, aren't you? ;)
Seriously, there was a time when he pretty much was West Coast hip-hop. That time is long gone, of course, and he's turned into self-parody now, but it did happen.
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So what were you, a "No Limit Soldier"? lol
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the roster of formerly cool stars embarrassing themselves by remaining in the public eye long past their sell-by date. Doing this kind of lame public (dis)service crap is like wearing a neon sign saying "IRRELEVANT" in glowing foot-high letters.
Cut it out. You're going to make Ice Cube cry.
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In think "Don't Copy that Floppy: Electric Boogaloo" is more whack.
Uninstall that shiz (Score:1)
and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011
Which, if you have any sense, you will promptly uninstall.
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I found the video! (Score:1, Informative)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
Just incase anyone missed it.
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You know why they called them soap operas? (Score:2)
In a somewhat untraditional partnership, Snoop Dogg and Symantec's Norton want you
A company hiring a celebrity to get its fans to buy their product is nothing new. Neither are slashvertisements.
Norton Internet Security (Score:3, Funny)
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Why does Snoop carry an umbrella? (Score:3, Funny)
For drizzle.
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What does Snoop put in his laundry? (Score:2)
Sounds like a job for the Disk Protector (Score:1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI [youtube.com]
To be fair, it's hard work selling out (Score:2)
Don't be too hard on the guy. Snoop Dogg is something of a victim of his own success here. What's he going to do to follow up cameos in a Kate Perry video, and doing publicity stunts to promote Facebook games [mashable.com]? When the bar's set that high, you've really got to hustle for opportunities. And don't think he can just appear in some computer ad, either, because his fellow gangsta rapper Dr. Dre is already doing HP ads. No, he's really got to go all out, and find something totally square to promote for cash. Stay
only thing norton can do... (Score:1)
i have a feeling this marketing ploy will function as good as anything else from norton.
"want you to show off your their lyrical skills" (Score:1)
Too bad. (Score:2, Insightful)
I really hate that hackers are blamed for every crime involving a computer. At least so it seems. We are talking less than 5% of all hackers do what they do for destruction or selfish means. I definitely will not promote Norton's products now. HACKING IS NOT A CRIME.
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Since most Computer viruses are obscure and mostly irrelevant now, and the real threat is Malware, I agree
Hacker: even by the Media definition does not include those who write malware, it does not even really apply to cracker
Malware mostly are trying to build botnets, to get personal information, and to send spam .... ....the new evil is the marketing droids ....
Nerds rapping... (Score:2)
...is better in freestyle form.
http://searchenginerapbattle.com/ [searchengi...battle.com]
Best Virus Rap (Score:1)
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Norton get it off! what a sell out (Score:2)
Norton get it off! what a sell out we should make a rap video about how bad Norton is and enter that.
Is that like (Score:2)
When Elvis helped Nixon with the war on Drugs?
ROFL (Score:2)
Seriously... (Score:1)
would anyone ever have guessed Snoop would sell out so hard? Everyone mellows with age but I thought he'd sold out completely when he appeared on a Katy Perry tune. Now he's pimpin Norton software? "Hack is wack?" Really?
Next thing he's gonna be doing infomercials for the Snooptisserie Oven.
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Cut of the pie... (Score:2)
Just out of interest, does someone like this get that miniscule 0.2% cut of the money pie when a song sells, or has he somehow escaped the clutches of the publisher?
2nd Prize is... (Score:2)
4 tickets to Snoop Dog + 2 copies of Norton.
Street Cred (Score:2)
Can competing anti-virus companies enter? (Score:2)
So what your telling me... (Score:1)
make a rap about how norton F* up there pc and how (Score:2)
make a rap about how norton F* up there pc and how much pain it was to get it fixed. Even better if you upload that to www.HackIsWack.com.
And they say weed is a harmless drug (Score:2)
Look where it got Snoop...
Just use this site to translate the contest page (Score:1)
Deadly Norton Snoop Rhymez (Score:2)
Explorer froze up, dang, shit ain't right!
My files get renamed to penut-butta.gif
And wallpaper's lookin like a dog with a splif
Camera comes on and what do I get?
Seems I've entered a cam-roulette!
The virus don't stop, it's threat level is wack
Suddenly there's Norton and he's got my back.
Ten minutes later everything's a'ight
It's good to know I can sleep tonight.
(All rhymes property of teh mixmasta 'e'...Theft = instant lawsuit, biatch.)
Hack is Whack? (Score:2)
"Whack"?
Is there a duck in here?
How's this for an entry? (Score:1)
LOL (Score:2)
He must be smokin' more than just the ganja now.
He's doing a liquor-bottle signing at a state-owned Wine and Spirits store in Philadelphia soon. WTF?
Okay Gregory Bros.. (Score:2)
... I know that you're out there, watching over us like some kind of lyrical nerdcore angels.
Time to autotune Snoop Dogg [vimeo.com] talking about this project...
"Bringin' the attention level up"
'Sho nuff!
"A lot of people don't even realize this is happening"
What about George? He chronicles tech problems he's havening [nanc.com].
"We come together and join forces to fight this"
Are you going to go to Russia and dump crackers in an abyss?
"When my team come after you we're gonna git you"
Get all up ins your binary code, and zero you o
Narc inside? (Score:2)
Recall the feds dream of malware with a deal "to ensure their anti-virus software would not detect the program"
I guess the music is like "White House Office of National Drug Control Policy" with anti drug messages in your fav tv dramas.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs [salon.com]
Now you get a musical propaganda blast to install Norton and fight "cyber crime"
Whats next a track on p2p, the joys of an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)?
Helllllzzzzz Yea! (Score:2)
was (Score:2)
Yeah, times changed about when Snoop Dogg moved from Long Beach to live on top of a high hill in Diamond Bar. See any correlation? Any at all?
Perfect Partnership (Score:2)
Symantec and Snoop Dogg are birds of a feather.
Running any Symantec software on your machine makes it sluggish, unresponsive and causes it to behave obnoxiously.
Listening to Snoop Dogg does the same to people.
What a novel idea (Score:2)
It's all about the pentiums [youtube.com]
bash.org [bash.org]
And.. have to say... Snoop dogg? Really? Even Rick Ashley would be better..
And Second Prize Is ... (Score:2)
4 days and 4 nights?
4 tickets to the concert?
"... and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011."
Be still, my beating heart!
Dear Snoop. (Score:2)
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I wasn't familiar with the work of John Muir until I was inspired to Google him by your quote. Thank you!