Re: Re: Ethics, morality and the industry

[Paul Foster <Paul.Foster () dmtsystems net>]

Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
> But you want to know who's really the idiot? The idiot
> is the person who plunks down good money for Mitnick's
> book, or pays a jacked-up conference attendance fee so
> some ex-con can stand there and say, "you are SO STUPID
> I can fool you ANY TIME" That's not just stupid - that's
> "double stupid"  And then there's "triple stupid" which is
> trying to defend and justify the double stupids. :)

You made many excellent points!  I fear that i'm an idiot though as I 
bought his book!  :)

My self-deception is that a refresher is always good, especially as I 
find us practitioners sometimes fall into patterns of thinking.  Using 
firewall logs as an example, many practitioners fall into the habit of 
only reviewing what has been dropped/rejected.  While this is useful, 
it's more important to know what is actually getting through! :)

We occasionally need reminding of such things, and as Mitnick is a SME 
in social engineering whats the problem with him being the refresher?

-PF aka idiot :)
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