You Say "Hacker", the Feds Say "Terrorist"

You Say "Hacker", the Feds Say "Terrorist"
Richard Forno, 2001-11-21

By lumping hackers in with cyber-terrorists, the government is demonstrating a fundamental inability to understand either group.

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Hackers vs. Terrorist Hackers 2001-11-23
Rich (1 replies)

I'm somewhere in the middle on this one. You make a few good points. I do not think there is an easy answer to this problem. A problem of both crime and terminology, however when you break things down to the nitty gritty people basically need to be held accountable for what they do. If someone does ...

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Hackers vs. Terrorist Hackers 2001-11-26
doc

In my opinion it seems this is hardly about literality, and more about precedence. If we don't draw clear agreeable lines of what separates child's play and malevolent attacks, in later years, it may be used to push the punishments of "cyber-terrorism" to something even more inconceivable....

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You Say Lawmakers, i say Morons. 2001-11-24
Anonymous (1 replies)

Overreaction is a good word to describe their activities....

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I say, Let's call the whole thing off 2001-11-26
Anonymous

:-)...

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There is no black hat / white hat. 2001-11-24
Flash (1 replies)

I understand the differnce between a paid hacker and a hobby hacker. The white hat hacker is the type of person that has either turned to the good side of computer security, or has made their mind up to do good on the net. On the other side of the token, the black hat would be a person who has all t...

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There is no black hat / white hat. 2001-11-26
doc

“Cracker” and “black hat” are synonymous, though I do associate “cracker” with someone less mentally equipped. Moreover I see “black hat” not so much malicious, as tired of trying to help, therefore preferring the use of action to speak louder then he...

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Controller 2001-11-24
bl0rf (1 replies)

This part of the bill (referring to cyber terrorism)
is a pretty obvious attempt to overall increase
the penalty for cracking, and does not have anything
to do with terrorism.
Perhaps by worsening the penalty for cracking the
US government is hoping that this will stop crackers
from exploiting...

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Controller 2001-11-26
Anonymous

And presumably under George Bush's executive order these "terrorist hackers" could be tried in a military tribunal, instead of in an open trial before a jury of their peers.
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The Good News... 2001-11-25
Rick Forno (infowarrior.org)

...is that Attorney Generallisimo Ashcroft - and to a lesser extent, the Bush White House - is coming under fire for scrambling to extend the government's legal powers under the guise of "anti-terrorism" - we're starting to see some prominient blowback from the Hill and other sectors on this area.
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Hackers 2001-11-26
john@flaccess.com

I think that if you're having problems with hackers then you need a new sysadmin strait up! Hell we can all get dos attacked. I think people that bring these exploits out show us the real dangers for the bigger boys that crack into major networks, such as the gov. I mean transfering money out of a t...

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You Say 2001-12-12
vector

I agree. Mafiaboy was a kid looking for bragging rights. And I believe that if the was not all the hype, then what would he have to brag about. This whole matter has gotten way out of control and the governments are only proving there ignorance towards these matters.
I recently experienced t...

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You Say "Hacker", the Feds Say "Terrorist" 2007-05-12
Anonymous

the word "terrorist" means, in definition, one who causes/spreads terror. so if someone were to release a virus upon the public, even a company, than the public would become worried or scared of the virus (depending on what it does). a virus sent to a company is terrorism because that company can su...

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