Who is Kevin Mitnick? The picture that emerged after his arrest in Raleigh, N.C. last February was of a 31-year old computer programmer, who had been given a number of chances to get his life together but each time was seduced back to the dark side of the computer world. Kevin David Mitnick reached adolescence [...]
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Paul Grahams recent essay Great Hackers. His sermon is well-written, and I assume it played very well when he preached it to the choir at OSCON.
Graham describes the notion of a great hacker, which he seems to roughly define as a programmer who is several times more productive than average. [...]
The Black & White Ball will be held at the stylish Ministry of Sound venue in London, the date is to be confirmed (but it will be in September).
In security parlance, the terms Black Hat and White Hat refer to hackers on opposite sides of the fence. Black Hat hackers break the law when they [...]
ponathan James: James gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He was sentenced at 16 years old. In an anonymous PBS interview, he professes, I was just looking around, playing around. What was fun for me was a challenge to see what I could pull off./p
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