It's like evolution where the results depend on the environment. Currently, its inputs are "corporate america" and "hackers". Result, "security professional". Let's see what the future will bring.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">HACK THE GOV</b> <<a href="mailto:hackthegov@googlemail.com">hackthegov@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
the bbc has the balls to call them hackers and not security<br>researchers, its about time the security media journalists woke up and<br>followed suit with the bbc.<br><br>blackhat is a hacker conference, the folks releasing information aren't
<br>security researchers, they are hackers through and through.<br><br>its people like securityfocus and cnet that try and give hackers<br>legitimacy to release their information and tools by calling them<br>security researchers.
<br><br>the security media need to get their wording correct in terms of<br>describing these people, trust me they'll be a revolution one day.<br><br>for years i have read news sites and cringed at how much hackers are
<br>given fancy titles like security and vulnerability researcher, kids<br>lets get down to it here ok, just incase you aren't on top of it,<br>these people are hackers.<br><br>people like hd moore are elite hackers that the government are scared
<br>of, lets not dress them up with any other title, the security media<br>seem to dress them up and soften them up for public consumption in<br>news articles for the non security savvy joe average to read.<br><br>the bbc should be hailed and get a standing ovation as the leading
<br>media news outlet in the world and should be a sign for others at<br>securityfocus and cnet to take note of for future coverage of security<br>current affairs.<br><br>why are securityfocus and cnet lying to their readers about what and
<br>who these people are? they are hackers.<br><br>we need to put the word hacker back where it belongs instead of<br>letting the uneducated crowd continue to call crackers and script kids<br>"hackers".<br><br>you don't hear much of the word cracker and script kid in the media
<br>now do you, they are called cyber criminals or hi-tech criminals now.<br>*lol*<br><br>i guess going to blackhat and releasing tools for the cyber criminals<br>to use isn't criminal in its self.<br><br>like i said, they'll be a revolution one day.
<br><br>we don't even call them blackhats, even though they are at blackhat<br>security conference, and what are whitehats doing giving talks at a<br>blackhat hacker conference? oh its just a name, it doesn't mean
<br>anything, *lol*.<br><br>link: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6929258.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6929258.stm</a><br><br>team n3td3v<br><br>_______________________________________________
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