__/ [ Rick ] on Friday 23 February 2007 11:53 \__
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:59:23 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
The secret life of a cyber hero
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| The mystery hacker whose online infiltration has led to several arrests
| of suspected child predators -- including a California superior court
| judge -- was a 19-year-old loner who penetrated 3,000 computers around
| the world from his parents' basement in Langley, B.C.
|
| [...]
|
| Dubbed "Citizen Tipster" by police, Brad Willman, spent night after
| night writing a Trojan Horse program that gave him complete control over
| every computer that downloaded it.
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... this 'kid is a hero because he hacked into people's computers? What
about all the non-predators he hacked? And we he be prosecuted for all
these illegal computer entries?
It's ironic, isn't it? That's just what I thought as well. The 'bad boy' type
is still in fashion, I guess. And the word "cracker" is out of the
journalists' dictionary. Some say 'malicious hacker'. I remember reading
about 15 year olds breaking into people's PCs. Can you even call them
"crackers"? I mean, could you send juveniles to prison? If not, then you
have a crime haven and a loophole. Windows elevates script kiddies to
botmasters status (or script Gods).