The Myth of the Ethical Hacker?

Brand Killer Robots reveal::

A hacker is a hacker is a hacker.

If you are a good hacker, then you know more

If you are a bad hacker, then you know less

If you are a loving hacker, then you will empower

If you are a selfish hacker, then you will disrupt

If you are a happy hacker, you swing one way

If you are an unhappy hacker, you swing another

If you are young and naive, you feel this

If you are older and mature, you feel that

When your emotions take hold of you - you begin to hack!

What state of mind will you be in at that time?

What life circumstances will you be in at that time?

What opponent will you be facing?

That will determine your state of ethicality!

How are executives really going to test the ethicality of their hackers?

The Myth of the Ethical Hacker?

Computer Hackers:: What really are they?

Brand Killer Robots reveal::

So just what is a computer hacker? Is it male or female? 15 years old or 50?

Are they swarve and sophisticated or fat, spotty and tatty?

Are they icecold and calculating or are they cudly and stumble around problems?

Are they political activists or challenged by the notion of following the merest cause?

Do they desire wealth and power or are they happy to just 'be' on the Internet?

So just what is a computer hacker?

Forget the reference to 'computer' and you end up with the word 'hacker' - meaning someone who 'hacks'

To 'hack' means to solve problems through trial and error. In other words 'heuristically". In the early days of computing, engineers were expected to solve problems without any training or access to reference materials. The only way to fix computing problems was to approach the problem in as many creative ways, as would come to mind. The more problems you managed to solve, the greater the knowledge base of algorithms the engineer had to draw upon and the quicker and more capable you would be at solving future problems.

So the term hacker really relates to people who have courage, creative and intellectual skills to take on problems, many for the first time. People who are expected to perform some complex task with almost no prior knowledge base to draw upon. Hackers can come from all manner of backgrounds including engineering, marketing or journalism or a hundred other places. The one thing that is common to all hackers is their ability to solve problems, largely through trial 'n' error.

So whether a hacker is smart, hairy, bald or catholic matters not. All that matters is whether they are using their capabilities to solve problems for good or for bad.

If its for bad - better make sure you don't become a target!

Brand Killer Robots Profiles:: Young Computer Hacker: Smouth

Alien Killer Robots reveal::
For the past 10 years we at Brand Killer Robots have been actively involved with researching the psychology of numerous computer hackers - in order to advise brand protection managers on the kind of threat they will have to deal with. We have decided to publish some of the dialogue over the next few weeks to try and give some real insight into why and how these guys think. This first piece was from a hacker going by the name of Smouth, who is apparently skilled in the art of navigation on the Net. Apparently, he can find his way around the Net quicker than most people find their way to the bathroom.
Basically, if you can't find what you are looking for on the Net - he will find it for you.

Our question to him (or her) was "why do you hack?"

Answer we got was..................

They said to me, you must do everything we say.
You must do everything we do.
Everything, in everyway, just like us.
Then one day they cast me aside.
I was too much for them to handle.
Too disruptive.

What I thought of as my life, was suddenly taken away from me forever.
Everyone and everything lost forever.
Smashed into a million pieces, which could never be put back together again.
Never to be the same again.
With only myself to blame.

It was some years later that I was able to accept what had happened and to start the process of looking for a new identity.
Looking for a new purpose in my life.
Once you start looking, its often the thing you are seeking, that finds you.

It was then I was found

It was then I found my calling
It was then I knew what my life would be spent doing
I had found my destiny

As a lone star computer hacker
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