kid after identifying him as cause of a security incident brought up a
few thoughts for me that I'd like to share:
Firstly media please refrain from calling alleged computer criminals
hackers. If you must call them crackers, thieves, fraudsters etc You
don't call white collar criminals bankers right?
Secondly kids - If you are interested in "hacking" or computer
security there are plenty of options open to you than committing a
crime. If you want to learn about breaking systems how about you just
run up a few instances of YOUR OWN on Amazon EC2 and start breaking
them. You will have cheap or even free access to the latest operating
systems, much better than what we see commonly used. Also no need for
hardware or pirating software and downloading it. If you are after
making a "name for yourself" why not look for some 0day
vulnerabilities in open source software and report them to the project
rather than giving yourself a problem with pre-employment screening in
the future?
