[Info-vax] Famed US hacker Kevin Mitnick dies aged 59

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-07-31, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/31/2023 9:23 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-07-29, bill <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 7/29/2023 2:37 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>> But if Mitnick's goal was to shut everything down and cause chaos, which I
>>>> suspect it was, he was very successful.
>>>
>>> I just wish people would stop trying to make heroes out of criminals.
>> 
>> Sometimes the low-level criminals do the good guys a really big favour
>> by exposing serious vulnerabilities before the _really_ bad guys come
>> along and cause massive damage.
>
> Those that are interested in such a service can contract a
> security expert to test.
>
> Those that are not interested in such a service -
> well they don't want it.
>

Nobody _wants_ the bad guys roaming around their systems. :-)

However, there are multiple categories of bad guys...

Simon.

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