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Would You Hire A Hacker?
theodp writes "A German security company has divided opinion in the IT industry by offering a job to the teen charged with creating Sasser. Silicon.com asks its CIO Jury: Would you hire a hacker? and finds the jury split down the middle, with one IT Director saying doing so would be like hiring serial-killing doctor Harold Shipman to treat your ailing and aged mother."
Fear the day that you ever have to let him go.
mmm honey
I give up, what sort of stuff do you do at National Endowment for the Arts?
It's amazing to me what kind of gullible suckers the mods are around here.
Hear hear! I can't stand how many people keep making this simple mistake. By calling destructive computer criminals "hackers," you're bringing down everybody who codes for the love of it. Lots of us have been calling ourselves hackers for years, only now to get painted with this negative brush.
I don't expect the mainstream press to know any better, but this is Slashdot. Can we please try to keep our definitions straight?
A hacker is a skilled, passionate computer programmer -- nothing more.
A person who commits malicious computer crimes is a biscuit. Like those evil software pirates who walk around with those parrots on their shoulders: "Polly want a biscuit!" Get it right, people.
Breakfast served all day!
I rememebr years ago the strident arguments on IRC: "No No! this is NOT some AOL 'room'. This is a CHANNEL!"
We need a new word that denotes a good or cool hack, or hacker. I propose "mugwump" but am open to reasonable suggestions...
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
Best logging system for super secure systems I ever heard of.
A good old fashion linefeed dot matrix printer... so a cracker may at some point be able to disable the feed, but if you were tracking them on the way in there's no way to cover their footprints electronically.