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Would You Hire A Hacker?

Posted by timothy on from the depends-on-circumstances dept.

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."

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  1. definitely not by staticdaze · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fear the day that you ever have to let him go.

  2. Re:My employer does... by friendscallmelenny · · Score: 5, Funny
    They put computers online in honeypot setups

    mmm honey

    I give up, what sort of stuff do you do at National Endowment for the Arts?

  3. Amen! by PCM2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    Breakfast served all day!