Bibek, Everything sounds great except noone in Nepalese infosec community gives a rats a** about "Ankit Fadia" .................. geeeeee...... there was a olddddddd joke!
Dear organizer, there is already a infosec community in Nepal called NepSecure so please be careful about your naming and branding. thanking you, -bipin On 8/18/10, Bibek Paudel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Shakthi Kannan <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> --- On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Amit Agrawal >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> | A 16 hours training of Ethical Hacking and Information Security is being >> | ... >> \-- >> >> Terminology please. >> >> Hacking is the art of programming. Hackers are people who are >> passionate about solving challenging problems, and take it to the >> highest level. What you are referring to is called cracking. Yes, the >> media has misused the term a lot. Please keep the sanity of the word >> hackers atleast in F/OSS mailing lists. Further reading [1] [2], >> >> Thanks, >> >> SK >> >> [1] How to become a hacker. http://catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html >> >> [2] Free as in freedom. http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ >> > > More specifically, this link might shed more light on the use of the > terminology. Especially the letter by RMS: > http://catb.org/jargon/html/appendixc.html > > The course and the initiative are great, but since there's nothing > 'unethical' about 'hacking,' the term 'ethical hacking' is really an > oxymoron. I think Ankit Fadia started the use of this term, and he has > received enough bashing from the hacker community for that. > > Bibek > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
