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Personalizing the Web browsing experienceKynetx co-founders Phil Windley (CTO) and Stephen Fulling (CEO) passed through last week but I did manage to...
Should we hire criminal hackers as security experts? This is the second of a two-part attack on the idea from a 1995 debate in which I participated.
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On a broader scale, consider the message you would be giving some thirteen year old proto-hacker. These kids, like most kids,
are tremendously susceptible to peer pressure. They already find criminal hacking attractive because it's viewed as today's
counter-culture — something fairly harmless (compared with, say, dealing drugs) but exciting because it's illegal. Now imagine
that the older creeps can announce that they've just been hired by The Man (i.e., authority figures) to work in counter-intelligence,
snooping in foreign companies' files for money (you don't imagine they'd keep it quiet, do you?). Oh man — not only is criminal
hacking glittering with the allure of the forbidden now, but you can hope to earn money with it from the government!
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