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Hackers Not Afraid of Being Caught

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-are-masters-of-disguises dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in to point us to an interview with Honeynet Founder Lance Spitzner where he says "Years ago it was hackers who were doing it for the bragging rights, now it's the criminals. The motivation has changed, hacking is now profitable and there's so much money to be made with very little risk to the actual hackers."

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  1. H(Cr)acker? by PeterAitch · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well, amongst technical folk, I thought the term was cracker.

    I would have looked it up on Wikipedia (perhaps even something clever like "Hacker Technical Controversy") but I've heard that this source is considered inherently unreliable by some. As a non-expert, I wasn't impressed and so I'm still none the wiser.

    Time for cheese and crackers (here in the UK).