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Story: The NASA hacker: Scapegoat or public enemy?

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Posted by: paul (Thursday 28 July 2005, 11:02 PM)

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WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!!!!

Hackers can be GOOD! Look at microsoft, they hired some of the best computer experts in the WORLD!

And many of them are infact HACKERS!

Also there are "white hat hackers" out there who only hack for the good. In the sence they will try to hack systems/ networks to HELP IMPROVE THAT SYSTEMS SECURITY!

Without hackers you will not be able to beat the hackers. Microsoft is far from the only company out there who hire hackers and or take advise from hackers to help inprove security.

So you see there are hackers who do it for the good of us all. And not all hackers are bad like the "script kiddies" or "black hat hackers".

So please no what your talking about before making statments like "ALL HACKERS ARE BAD".

And i bet the NASA had there systems checked over for security after this hack. So whats bad about that?

Without this hacker, all that information could be open to worse people who could use that information against countrys. People may have been killed, secrets outted.

I Think some hackers are good, and others are bad, and others just like to nose around for free software.

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