, SecurityFocus 2003-02-13
By all accounts ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick created only a modest stir when he sauntered into the December meeting of the Los Angeles chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). He sat quietly, paid attention, and at the conclusion of the meeting joined with some of the other 60-odd attendees swapping business cards, chatting with fellow computer security workers and discussing his plans for his new consulting business, Defensive Thinking. "He wasn't flashy at all," recalls one chapter member, who didn't recognize Mitnick until the conclusion of the meeting. "He introduced himself as 'Kevin.'"
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Mitnick Banned From Security Group
2003-02-13
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Zone-H position about ISSA rejectin Mitnick's membership application
2003-02-13
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Mitnick Banned From Security Group
2003-02-14
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Mitnick Banned From Security Group
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Mitnick Banned From Security Group
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The question is one of ethics. There was a point (early in his career) when Kevin KNEW that what he was doing was illegal and wrong (two different things by the way).
Nobody will seriously try to dispute Kevin's potential contributions to the field of Information Security, but ISSA has had it's Code of Ethincs since it's inception. It is fully justified in rejecting Kevin's application for membership based on it's COE. Nobody, least of all ISSA, has said that Kevin cannot contribute to InfoSec, they just don't want him putting ISSA after his name.
In all my years of working with computers, I've never hacked on a coputer that I did not own, or have written permission to attack.
I've always known the differnece between right and wrong. That seems to be something that Kevin never quite accepted. It had to be brought to his attention by and our brutish legal system.
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