Great video :) It's been my experience that a lot of companies and employers have the idea that hacker=zomgtehEBIL. I'm a self-proclaimed hacker in the 'original' sense of experimenting http://www.iwriteiam.nl/HackerDef.html
I take a view that in order to defend against Exploit XYZ, you need to use it yourself and know exactly what it does (and have the moral compass to not do Bad Things with the information). A lot of security people don't want to do this.
this also brings up ethical points that we have not really considered, perhaps.
ReplyDeleteGreat video :) It's been my experience that a lot of companies and employers have the idea that hacker=zomgtehEBIL. I'm a self-proclaimed hacker in the 'original' sense of experimenting http://www.iwriteiam.nl/HackerDef.html
ReplyDeleteI take a view that in order to defend against Exploit XYZ, you need to use it yourself and know exactly what it does (and have the moral compass to not do Bad Things with the information). A lot of security people don't want to do this.
a huge portion of my long term friends are hackers in the original sense, not the pop culture sense. :)
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