In 1995, I participated in a debate with distinguished security expert Robert D. Steele, a vigorous proponent of open-source intelligence. We discussed the advisability of hiring criminal hackers. Perhaps readers will find the polemic I published back then of interest today. I’m sure it will provoke vitriolic comments from the criminal hacker community.
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Our debate today concerns the proposition that criminal hackers are a national resource and should be cultivated as valuable
contributors to national and corporate security.
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