On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 10:15 +0530, Vickram Crishna wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2012 8:50 AM, "satyaakam goswami" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> But the FSMK people have decided to use the term "ethical hacking" > for > >> "hacking + Activism" and possibly beyond. > >> http://www.fsmk.org/ethical-hacking > >> > >> Is this a good move? > > > > > > time will tell , so far the users of the term have had made money , > also the motive of FSMK is not clear may be they wanted to catch the > attention as in publicity since the spin web doctors and media have > done so much to register the term in people 's mind it makes it so > much more easier to sell something than just old philosophical and > moral high ground points. > > > > etymologically speaking there is some research to be done to find > how this word came into being ,
Wikipedia says, "Ethical hacking is a term coined by IBM meant to imply a broader category than just penetration testing." May be true, may not be. God knows. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security) Best, Sasi -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
