Re: Civil Disobedience

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An excerpt from a famous piece you probably all know, the mentor's last 
words, although I don't totally agree with him, whoever he might be, he did 
say some very true things.


Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is
that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they
look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that
you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this
individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

 The complete version can be found here:

http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~bfloyd1/mentor.htm

On Monday 15 October 2001 22:55, br0ken halo stuffed this into my mailbox:
> I agree that this bill is *very* unneeded...to say, to even make the
> comparison between a hacker and a terrorist is absurd! Terrosim kills
> people, hacking is a victimless crime. People go on and on about how our
> 'national' infrastructure is at *grave* risk from evil hackers and that
> these evil hackers could destroy power grids, shut off our water, and cause
> the beginning of the freaking holocaust - yet have we actually seen any
> real world proof of this? This kind of thinking is only propaganda, as is
> the hacker - terrorist comparison.
>
> Beefing up the sentences on hackers/crackers/virus writers and the like is
> complete stupidity. It's a simple 'we don't really care about how the
> problem gets fixed, as long as it does get fixed' attitude. Thats exactly
> what this bill represents. The way to defeat the script kid is through good
> security practices through solid communication and deployment of the tools
> necessary to achieve a secure computing enviroment. This includes but is
> not limited to security lists, good security information websites such as
> http://www.securityfocus.com and the like. The only way security experts
> and administrators can secure their computing enviroment is by using the
> same tools that the hackers use to break into them. When you take away
> these tools from the security experts/administrators (as well as the script
> kids who use them), you're denying them the 'civil liberty' of taking
> matters into their own hands (as well they should!) to secure their
> computing enviroment. The spread of Information and good security practices
> is what will stop hackers from commiting crimes. Not beefing up sentences.
>
> Can you really justify sending an 18 year old kid to federal prison because
> he hacked your box?
>
> ___________________________________________________________
> I live in a world of Paradox - My weakness` are your
> strengths, your wisdom is my stupidity, and your victorys
> are my losses, a victory that won't last.
> ___________________________________________________________
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "pomalley(contr-ird)" <pomalley () snap org>
> To: vuln-dev () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Civil Disobedience
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:53:07 -0400
>
> This is just my 2cents worth but...
>
> Has anyone bothered to read the bill as it was passed?  The bit about
> hacking being punishable by life imprisonment was removed before it passed.
>
>
> http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c107:2:./temp/~c107RpB60w::
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felix von Leitner [mailto:leitner () convergence de]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 13:42
> To: vuln-dev () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Civil Disobedience
>
> Thus spake John Thornton (jthornton () hackersdigest com):
>  >  I ask each and every one of you to join me in this protest.
>
> Why not conduct port scans from the IP of the White House, Capitol, CIA,
> DEA and other law enforcement agencies and see whom the FBI arrests?
>
> This is some serious shit, people!  Not reporting is not the way to go.
> This law has to be proven ineffective and harmful.  That means:
>
>    a. computer crime must not go down, or they will think the law was
>       effective
>    b. computer crim must not go up, or they will make laws with even more
>       severe punishment.
>
> Talk to your representatives about this!  Explain to them that this law
> makes it impossible to learn computer security from the ground up, which
> means that there will be no more qualified new computer security people
> in ten years, which means all the good security companies will not be in
> the USA, which means less jobs, less taxes and more poverty.
>
> Felix
>
>
>
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