[169823] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Mon Mar 17 22:15:59 2014
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 21:15:36 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <eqAR1n0063qEqs101qASPU>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/17/2014 9:10 PM, shawn wilson wrote:
> The point is that 'computer security' involves innovation as much as
> is done at hacker spaces (which can be geared to hardware or computer
> security or whatever). I think the difference you're trying to argue
> is the legality and not the task or process. I think calling the
> illegal form of the study of computer security "cracking", the legal
> form "hacking" and people who are "cracking" who don't know what
> they're doing "script kiddies" is irrelevant, useless, and causes
> useless debates (that I started) like this.
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