RE: Interview with an ex-hacker

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Forwarded from: Brooks Isoldi <bjisoldi () acsu buffalo edu>

Well, good luck telling that to this reporter.  I have in the past
tried to inform Mr. Middleton on the topic of internet crimes, which
he attempts to write many of his news articles about.  He goes out of
his way to pick the most moronic of hackers and asks them the most
moronic of questions.  I guess the two fit nicely together.  One
article he wrote actually contained information on what the kids do
besides hacking and contained questions that had absolutely no bearing
whatsoever on the issue.  Middleton has made an effort to allow
juvenile kids with very little knowledge of the very systems they
attack to stand on a podium and preach security to the rest of the
world, and he has justified this nonsense by claiming that these
articles are widely read by his targetted audience and therefore he
must be doing something right.  Well, sure if your target audience
doesn't know anything about the topic, of COURSE they're going to be
more likely to enjoy what you write.  It's ridiculous when you see a
journalist stoop down to the level where the "hacker underground" is
some awe-inspiring, sensational realm that few people have the honor
of existing within.


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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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http://www.computing.vnunet.com/News/1128889

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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