http://wiltonvillager.com/story/464646 BY TIM BARKER St. Louis Post-Dispatch 02/06/2009 I just got back from the 2009 Cyber Crime Conference. The conference is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and is geared toward law enforcement types. Spent one afternoon listening to a pair of well-known hackers who reminded me just how much of an advantage some of these guys have over the ordinary folks who inhabit the Internet. The first was Jeff Moss (known as Dark Tangent), the founder of DEF CON, one of the oldest computer hacker conferences. The second was Johnny Long with Hackers for Charity, a group that supports the education of kids in East Africa. Moss spent a lot of time going over the history of hacking -- and to be clear, Moss and others argue that the term has been misused by the media as a generic reference for computer criminals. He says hackers, historically, have been about the quest for hidden knowledge, with a look-but-don't-touch approach to that knowledge. By the end of his hour-long presentation, I have to say I was pretty well convinced that there's not much you can hide from people with so much desire to simply prove they can do what someone else says they can't. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books & More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Fri Feb 06 2009 - 01:29:24 PST
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