I know all sorts of people who would tell you that he was not a hacker, either, just a black hat who now makes money off his reputation,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(computing) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Ethic but I have things to do and am not going to argue the usage as applied to Mitnick. This kid did not need even script kiddy skills therefore I don't believe that anyone would agree with you. I do however want to say that I do not think that punking Palin merits a sentence of likely gang rape. Community service perhaps, perhaps in a hackerspace where he can make himself useful or better yet in his local library teaching people how to secure their passwords. On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: >> but it's not a jail time thing in a world where Scooter Libby >> skates. > > that subject was beaten, beheaded, cremated and buried. let's not > resurrect it from the dead. > > And by the way, he did not HACK her account. If changed her >> password by using publicly available information to answer the >> security question. > > that's still hacking. one-time super-hacker Kevin Mitnick did most of > his damage through social engineering of exactly this sort. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317080 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
