B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

New accepted submitter super_rancid writes that issue 154 of the "UK-based Linux Format magazine was pulled from Barnes and Noble bookstores in the U.S. after featuring an article called 'Learn to Hack'. They used 'hack' in the populist security sense, rather than the traditional sense, and the feature — which they put online — was used to illustrate how poor your server's security is likely to be by breaking into it."

Comments

Re:Populist security sense?

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You can't argue with market realities. You can be smart. rebrand yourselves and build that brand in a respectable manner, or you can be a stupid 10 year old and throw a tantrum and still be associated with spammers and thieves.

Or, you can just not give a damn what Joe Sixpack calls us, since he won't understand it no matter what clever names we come up with. We hear about just as many whitehats going to prison (if not more) for pointing out the gaping holes in security, as we do blackhats for quietly exploiting those holes.


Your choice.

Okay, I'll take "Your Foamy Lord and Master", then.