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Re: USDOJ BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES
From: Darren Reed <avalon () caligula anu edu au>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:07:41 +1000 (Australia/ACT)
In some mail from sockz loves you, sie said:
From: Darren Reed <avalon () caligula anu edu au> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:05:07 +1000 (Australia/ACT) To: dotslash () snosoft com (KF) Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] USDOJ BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES1. Hacking *IS* bad and if children for some reason think it is cool then they need to be educated so that they understand it is NOT. There is no two ways about it. At the small end of the scale, I don't even view unauthorised port scanning as morally acceptable (even if the courts don't find it illegal), never mind actually breaking into one. It is an invasion of privacy, no two ways about it. The presence of software bugs is not an excuse to exploit them.wow thats really sad. i'm sorry you feel that way darren :*( "It is an invasion of privacy" wow, and this is so rare these days too. tell me, darren, how do you think the DOJ finds out shit about hackers? they invade the privacy of their targets. how do journalists find out about movie stars fucking politicians. they invade privacy. there is no privacy, darren. there never has been. it is only an illusion. you mention morals and hacking. what morals? hacking is about as immoral as speeding down a freeway. i have more moral issues with taking dying pets to the vet to be put down than i do with destroying someone's system. people these days just dont give a fuck about anyone else. the DOJ doesn't care about your feelings either, which is why they're trying to influence children to make their own job easier in the future.
I think you summed it up correctly - people these days don't care about others and a case in point, a hacker breaking in to someone else's computer system is showing deliberate disrespect and lack of thought for the owner. Educating children to understand that hacking is invasive, disrespectual and damaging cannot, therefore, be a bad thing. I fail to see why you would want to pick on the DOJ for trying to make their own job easier, surely this kind of vision is worthy of congratulations. Well, maybe not if you consider yourself to be other than a 'white hat'. Hacking into systems on an unauthorised basis is not OK, no matter how "just" the cause or "curious" the intruder.
2. Secure progamming is something that needs to be taught at a level that is appropriate and that is definately not primary school or maybe even grade school. The problem is children who think they can program teach themselves bad habits and these bad habits do not get corrected later as they go on to become professional programmers. Regardless of talent, you should not be allowed to develop commercial applications as a programmer unless you have been properly schooled and thereafter stay current. That aside, security bugs can be much more than just a buffer overflow. What is really being said here is that software is not tested/evaluated to a high enough standard before being sold/shipped - this includes open source products.The highest sounds are hardest to hear. Going forward is a way to retreat. Great talent shows itself late in life. Even a perfect program still has bugs. it is the principle of yin and yang, darren. it applies to everything. there is no such thing as perfect coding. just very ugly and less ugly.
I think you misunderstood what I said to imply that the code must be perfect whereas it shhould be that the behaviour of the program that is of concern, not the code.
i say the DOJ should stop giving Quentin shit and start rewarding his genius. let his skills in information retrieval grow so that one day he can flourish in a promising career as an industrial spy, a terrorist, or perhaps even working with the DOD or CIA to spy on people in rival nations. this is where Quentin will be able to make some real money. much more than he ever would as a simple-minded morally-challenged perfectionist programmer.
Ok, I can recognise that part as attempted humour. Cheers, Darren _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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