Should You Hire a Hacker?

fabioj writes "Business Week has an article about today's debate at the RSA Security Conference held at the Moscone Center attended by Kevin Mitnick and his 1995 trial prosecutor, Christopher Painter. Interesting to note that Painter doesn't see Kevin Mitnick's experiences as a deterrent for the 'up-and-coming technology workforce' to criminally hack."

Comments

Shocking reality

[Anonymous Coward]

Women slits have the wrong orientation!

Kevin is a traitor

[Anonymous Coward]

Why the fuck would a former "hacker" catch other hackers? (note hacker means criminal hacker for this purpose)

Dont they know the government is out to crucify hackers and punish them severely.

This is ridiculous, if a person with a clean background catches a hacker that's cool. But someone who's done the same shit, then turns around and fucks over someone else doing the same shit he used to do... thats plain wrong.

Re:What's the issue?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, but I'd hire one as a bodyguard for your daughter.

Re:A criminal is a criminal

[JimPooley]

So why is Poindexter running Total Information Awareness?

Because the Bush administration is fundamentally corrupt and the sooner you guys kick that fucker out of the White House the better.

Or in Chrissie Painter's case

[Anonymous Coward]

A cocksucker is still a cocksucker,even if ya only suck just one.

Criminal Hackers are plain Criminals

[Domini]

And should be treated as such...

How about if the US Army would recruit ex-murderers? Hmm... would you only feel safe if they weren't back home?

I think the amount of young destructive criminal hackers this precedent is CREATING far outweighs the small ammount of benefit gained by employing an ex-crimnal hacker.

The LAWs are there not just for punishing the guilty, but to serve as a deterent for future disdeeds.

Re:Both sides of the story

[Qrlx]

Bah, you have no idea how we think and act...

UNREPENTANT criminal is still a criminal

[swordgeek]

I'm disturbed but not particularly shocked at the number of people missing the point here.

Mitnick is a convicted criminal.
Mitnick is a THIEF. Regardless of how heavily the law came down on him, you can't get around the fact that he actually stole money (in the form of services) from companies.
Furthermore, he seems to show no remorse, no guilt, no understanding that what he did was wrong, and no sign of reform.

I've been playing with computers since the beginning of the 1980s, and can't argue that times were very different. However, that does NOT excuse theft, and anyone (especially convicted thieves) who say it does are not the people I trust.

Re:Onto the streets?

[Anonymous Coward]

So how was it? Did they "break you in easy" or did they just gang bang the shitm out of your poor little rosy red asshole?

Really, it's okay to let us know you liked it.
We know you did.

First Dupe!

[Anonymous Coward]

w00t

Eh?

[capitalsucks]

Well, Mitnick was kind of a lamer anyways..

Wanted

[Anonymous Coward]

...someone with 1/2 brain to post something 1/2 interesting so we can perhaps salvage this thread....anyone have anything new to talk about?

Re: Repeat

[Black Parrot]

> What makes the whole repeat-ness of this story even worse is that there is a vote about it up right now!

OK, so Slashdot has moved from being a discussion site for stories posted at The Register to being a discussion site for Slashdot polls.

SOMEONE CALL TACO

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