full-disclosure - Teenager cleared of hacking

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <1066410753.3152.103.camel@tantor.nuclearelephant.com>
From: jonathan at nuclearelephant.com (Jonathan A. Zdziarski)
Subject: Teenager cleared of hacking - Off Topic?

> John>  I have to wonder how many companies do deals to employ hackers
> John> (like the movie "Catch me if you can").
> 
> I know at least one company that doesn't.

There's a big difference between hiring a hacker to do a specific job,
and hiring someone then finding out he's hacking.  I guess it also
depends on whether you are defining a 'hacker' as a criminal hacker or
expanding it to include professionals.  Based on what I read at the URL
you provided, I would be very surprised if Intel hired a rogue criminal
hacker to test their security, but I can certainly see companies like
Intel hiring professional white-hat hackers or possibly x-"hackers" who
have learned their lesson to do the job.