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Oregon Supreme Court Declines To Hear Schwartz Case
merlyn writes "The Oregon Supreme Court declined to hear my case, leaving standing the unfavorable decision of the Oregon Appeals Court as the final authority on this eight-year-long case, well known to many
sysadmin and Perl hacker alike. Details at my fors-announce posting." If you're not sure what that means, you probably want to read at least this site which offers a straightforwardly partisan look at the complicated case of Intel vs. Schwartz as well as Schwartz's own page; it's a strange world where programmers and sysadmins can be convicted for seemingly innocent activities.
Randal is totally innocent.
If I found out that someone who was not a sysadmin or security analyst was running a password cracker on my systems, I'd be very pleased.
Lets face it, it's a pain in the ass to setup passwords crackers, and if a "White Hat" Hacker decides to break into my mailserver, he's really doing me a service.
As an example of similar activity, just the other day I found a man trying to unlock my mailbox with a screwdriver by prying the door off. I was actually comforted by the gesture, since I can now send a bug report to the post office and request that they install a stronger door.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Crackers are bad enough. Password stealing crackers who put INLINE SOUND on thier webpages should be shot.
-- I Am Not A Terrorist.
(Look at my friggin' nickname, I just had to say it).
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
>get permission to crack the passwords. So when
>the admin found out that Schwartz was running
>Crack he informed the security guys at Intel.
In other words, intel security was a lot better than this wannabe suspected . . .
hawk