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Subject: Re: [ISN] Set a hacker to catch a hacker
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i ! org>
Date: 2002-01-29 8:08:54
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Forwarded from: Meritt James <meritt_james@bah.com>
See the clash here? "only a hacker can defeat a hacker" and "case
still pending in the US judicial system". Seems that a hacker was
defeated (assuming that he represents himself as a hacker) by lawyers.
InfoSec News wrote:
> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1128657
>
> By James Middleton
> [25-01-2002]
>
> Pimpshiz, the hacker who rose to notoriety in 2000 during a
> pro-Napster defacement spree, has gone straight. Although his case
> is still pending in the US judicial system, Robert Lyttle, as he
> is now known, is trying to make a break as a security expert.
...
> "Only a hacker can defeat a hacker. The threat of digital malice
> seems only to grow. Reports show that, even when new security
> measures are deployed, computer crimes do not decrease; often they
> increase," he said.
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James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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