The blackhats we read about in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s are making serious bank as reformed hackers(which means they went to jail and would never hack again unless alot of venture capital is involved)... Security Focus, $8000 Crunch Boxes, Kevin Mitnick's former talk radio show
the more recent ones are busy pimping the trendy image and building "black hat street cred" by sitting in front of the camera in their anonymity hoods or shocking choice in hair colors and facial piercings
then we have foundstone... making a living off the fortune 500 while selling the overpriced book and cdset at Barnes and Nobles to the script kids that use them to hack the fortune 500
and lets not forget eeye who's been playing a rather questionable game of ethical hacking with Microsoft as of late... and no doubt cashing in every time they wait for the patch to come out before they expose the flaw with the aide of a news reporter or two from the washington post
the l0pht FBI rumor isn't new... and its obvious they're milking their established cred for all its worth... they haven't developed any NEW security software in quite a while... just updates for their classics
as for snitching... exactly how long do you think you would last out there hacking and releasing deadly exploit code independantly without telling the puppet masters at least something? those that don't play by the rules pay for it and there are plenty of convicted felons who's work made that bugtraq top ten
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I'm quite sure it has to do with Cowboy Neil being an AI Lab project that went horribly horribly wrong ...
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The blackhats we read about in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s are making serious bank as reformed hackers(which means they went to jail and would never hack again unless alot of venture capital is involved) ... Security Focus, $8000 Crunch Boxes, Kevin Mitnick's former talk radio show
the more recent ones are busy pimping the trendy image and building "black hat street cred" by sitting in front of the camera in their anonymity hoods or shocking choice in hair colors and facial piercings
then we have foundstone ... making a living off the fortune 500 while selling the overpriced book and cdset at Barnes and Nobles to the script kids that use them to hack the fortune 500
and lets not forget eeye who's been playing a rather questionable game of ethical hacking with Microsoft as of late ... and no doubt cashing in every time they wait for the patch to come out before they expose the flaw with the aide of a news reporter or two from the washington post
the l0pht FBI rumor isn't new ... and its obvious they're milking their established cred for all its worth ... they haven't developed any NEW security software in quite a while ... just updates for their classics
as for snitching ... exactly how long do you think you would last out there hacking and releasing deadly exploit code independantly without telling the puppet masters at least something? those that don't play by the rules pay for it and there are plenty of convicted felons who's work made that bugtraq top ten