RE: Interview with an ex-hacker

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Forwarded from: "Thomas (Yahoo!)" <thomasroygarner () yahoo com>

Since when is web-vandalism equal to "terrorized websites" (and since
when is terrorized spelled w/ an S instead of a Z?).  I believe this
reporter is setting an extremely dangerous tone by linking the word
terrorism to vandalism.  With the 100's of new anti-terrorism laws in
place, we are going to see sweeping changes all in the name of
"anti-terrorism", example, Super Bowl 36, did anyone catch the
commercials that stated "some drug money is used to front terrorist
activities" by using imagery (paying for guns, explosives, seeing a
person sitting down "building" something).

I believe that we need to be very careful how we report items, b/c my
creating a link between web vandalism and terrorism, is going to
create a new wave of anti-computer "whatever" (i.e., hacking, etc.,)
raids, like back during the Cyberpunk days (remember that?)

Thomas Roy Garner
SETIPRIME ( http://www.setiprime.com )

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By James Middleton [01-02-2002]

According to the defacement archive at Alldas.de, the hacker group
known as the 'sm0ked crew' only terrorised websites throughout
February of last year.

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