[169809] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sholes, Joshua)
Mon Mar 17 10:22:07 2014
From: "Sholes, Joshua" <Joshua_Sholes@cable.comcast.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:21:41 +0000
In-Reply-To: <532240A4.2040108@cox.net>
To: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/13/14, 7:35 PM, "Larry Sheldon" <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
>Not sure I can agree with that. I have been in this game for a very
>long time, but for most of it in places where the world's population
>cleaved neatly into two parts: "Authorized Users" who could be
>identified by the facts that they had ID cards, Badges, and knew the
>door code; and "trespassers" who were all others.
>
>Then you new kids came along and (pointlessly, in my opinion) divided
>the later group into the two described above.
See, the way *I* learned it was that part of the creed of the "hacker"
involved "why would I want to play with your systems, mine are much
cooler."; that is, by definition a "hacker" is in the first group.
--Josh
