Re: Secret Service Agent: Hackers Are Unpatriotic

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>

> http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=35894
>
> By Marcia Savage, CRN
> San Francisco
> 2:42 PM EST Tues., June 18, 2002 
>
> A special agent with the Secret Service's electronic-crimes branch
> said hackers are unpatriotic.
>
> In a keynote here Tuesday at the Computer Security Institute's
> NetSec conference, John Frazzini said the lines between criminal
> acts and acts of war are increasingly blurring since the September
> terrorist attacks.
>
> "Hackers who brag that they can break into computer systems are
> unpatriotic," he said. "If you're a U.S. citizen breaking into
> computer networks, it's not only criminal but unpatriotic."

Ok to be fair..

If you are a US citizen stealing gas from your local station ..
If you are a US citizen stealing office supplies ..
If you are a US citizen breaking traffic laws ..

.. you are not only criminal, but unpatriotic.

Why does petty computer crime thrust you into an "unpatriotic"
category and other crimes don't?



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