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Y>> My experience with hackers is they deny everything. After all, you might

If he was hacker, he would write cool things, not break what others
have done. If he was skilled computer criminal, he would never been 
caught. If he was medium-skilled computer criminal, he would deny
everything when caught. If he was fame-thirsty script-kiddie, he would
tell anyhone how cool he cracked Pentagon - no one among journalists
would ever understand that "to crack Pentagon" is like "to eat
McDonalds" or "to read Stematsky"... In fact, that is what he did. And it
served him well, financically and public-relation-wise. He's now almost
national hero. Computer David beating a Goliath of Pentagon... Bleurgh...

Y>> Because of the constant flood of newbie questions.

Oh, you certainly never was on any "hacker" channel, newsgroup, or forum.
The hour when no one asks "how to be a hacker" is the hour when all are
asleep or network is down.

Y>> Glorification of these people is unwaranted and wrong... they are no
Y>> better than kids who shoplift because they think it's kewl, and "the shop
Y>> has tons of stuff so stealing one pack of chocolate won't hurt them".

And the buff over An. and the silly things said by BB and other high
officials do not get anyone closer to a clue. I understand that BB himself
is no computer literate in any way, and this is not his required skill, 
but at least he should have one clueful advisor... Oh well, I'm
daydreaming again.
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