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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
