RE: "INFOSec Education Research Question"...

["Melson, Paul" <PMelson () sequoianet com>]

-----Original Message----- 
> RQ:
>   "What do BH Hackers, WH Hackers, GH Hackers have to offer
interdisciplinary
> INFOSec education?"

That sounds like something a television reporter might ask, hoping to
sound intelligent.
 
RRQ: What can you hope to learn from individuals who lack affiliation
beyond ascribed, ambiguous groupings that fail to describe a skill set,
knowledge base, or any specific characteristic beyond, "good," "bad," or
"other?"
 
To put it another way, archetypes are typically irrelevant and useless
outside of storytelling.  
 
I would gather from your e-mail that this question is being asked inside
of an academic discourse in criminal justice.  So I would think that
you're better off asking two different questions:
 
1. What motivates criminal hackers / system crackers?  ...infosec
practitioners and researchers (aka 'professionals' so you can answer
this one easily :-)?  ...everyone else connected to the infosec
landscape?
 
2. What specific skills and activities are representative of each of the
aforementioned groups?
 
PaulM
 
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