, SecurityFocus 2005-04-11
Family and colleagues of a Venezuelan security expert known for defacing Web sites under the name "Rafa" have launched a campaign to highlight the one-time vandal's more benevolent acts.
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I feel what people fail to understand is a simple fact. "you need to learn as a hacker" how to break a system to secure it and any government security analyst will tell you that.
Yes in the past he was slightly foolish with site defacements. People do grow out of old habits to which he was encouraged to do around 2001 anyway.
Personally I feel you should let him go and the some of the "System Administrators" should be put on trial for a breach of National Security and failing to carry out their jobs and being incompetent. Obviously when this concerns an Air Force base there should be a Court Marshall.
I would also like to point out, you have to look at what positive things have come out of this higlighting security issues.
Please never forget that people are always remebered for the bad things they have done and not the good things. RaFa is not all that bad and to be honest does this mean I will be arrested if I travel to the USA just for communicating with this gentleman?
I might be arrested for helping him get out of old habits. Please understand he has done far more constructive work than destructive.
It is about time people started to grow up and work on things that really matter.
Kind Regards,
Bluegrumps
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