Reply From: Brad Willey <bfwilley@hotmail.com>
>My first impression of the book was a make money fast scheme gone wrong.
>Cashing in on the buzzword of the 90's, Ms. Meinel runs the word 'hacker'
>into the ground by the end of chapter 1.
>Page 67: "I make my living asking dumb questions." Quoted material is
>straight from the author's mouth, and seems to be dead on with the
>technical level of the book.
During and after the 60's a lot of people in the know about explosives
believed that the book the anarchist's cookbook had been written or
edited or influenced by the FBI or some other government organization
with an eye to having the booby bomber blow him self up. You have to ask
your self if the above referenced book is poorly written for a reason (
to allow easier detection of a happy hacker ) or is it just your
standard money making crap, that will if packaged (right) *-) write --
will form the basis for new legal standards world wide. Garbage in
garbage out.......
Brad D Willey
[Moderator: That idea has come up on another list. Why? Because Carolyn
Meinel submitted a proposal to train the FBI on how to track and find
hackers. Interesting that she would try to train hackers, NOT teach any
methods for covering their tracks, then train the FBI to track said
hackers. It was argued that since she could only train to the "happy
hacker" level of knowledge, that she could only train the FBI to catch
the same level of hackers. In doing so, she was playing both sides of
the field in order to make money off both sides. Her outline for teaching
the FBI (posted by an ex-business partner) was more than amusing. One
entire day of the 2/3 day class focused on reading headers of mail to
track down spammers and mail forgers. While a great skill to have, I
don't think the FBI are too concerned with spammers, and rarely called
in to deal with them.]
-o-
Subscribe: mail majordomo@sekurity.org with "subscribe isn".
Today's ISN Sponsor: New Dimensions International [www.newdimensions.net]
Received on Mon Aug 17 11:20:48 1998