On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:58:18 -0500, zMan wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Scott Ford wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> Agree totally, but we need to convince the powers to be that hackers must
>> be licensed and monitored
>
>Hm. That's a stretch; I'm not particularly Libertarian/anti-regulation, but
>this seems impractical.
> 
Much the same argument applies to locksmiths.  Differentiated in that there
are clear non-adversarial applications of locksmithing; fewer for hacking.
The exception that comes to mind is data recovery.

I had an associate in younger days who carried no keys; only a pair
of lock picks that he used to enter any area to which he was (AFAIK)
authorized.  Surely illegal but apparently benign.

-- gil

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