Daniel Stark wrote:

> You wouldn't actually imply that hackers are out their providing a 
> welcome  service do you?  I can see if you asked for your network to 
> be stress  tested, but to go as far as saying they provide a welcome 
> service?  Come on!   Yeah, they might have found a security whole, but 
> oops, now the firewall  admin is out of a job.  People should 
> constantly strive to secure their own  boxen, we don't need hackers to 
> do it for us. 

I would imply that truly benign hackers are good. We should try to 
secure our own boxen, but what if we miss something. I'd rather have a 
benign hacker find it than an bad bad hacker find it. It's like 
open-source, the more good eyes, the less bad problems...

Of course, if a benign hacker got me, I'd also be inclined to re-format 
and re-install, bearing in-mind their entry point... Just in case.

GBY



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