On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 01:48:59PM -0800, coderman wrote:
Yes, annoying though that may be to those of us who were called hackers
before that became a bad thing. But we're outnumbered thousands-to-one, and
we're just not going to win that language war.
use the term "independent security researcher",
your legal counsel will thank you!
A cryptographically secure pseudonym would probably work even better. Weev
didnt actually do anything wrong that I could see, by any sane
interpretation of even something as egregious as CFAA and he's serving 41
months. A lawyer is a last resort, step #1 is not identifying yourself even
for non-malicous research I suspect.
Probably the biggest risk is the incompatibility of real-space bragging
rights to the discovery for people who like to speak at conferences.
Adam
