Saturday, August 19, 2006
BoingBoing features hacking group at work in Himanchal Pradesh
IMO the idea of hiring professional hackers to start a wireless internet in Himachal Pradesh is somewhat reminiscent of the idea of the USA hiring Osama Bin Laden to prevent terrorism. A lot of these guys are drug addicts and unrepentant turncoats and thieves, furthermore wealthy turncoats and thieves.
One typical such "hacker" is Peter "Mudge" Zatko who testified to the Senate that he could "take the Internet down in 30 minutes". Errm, an unlikely boast to get Govt funds? Anyway, for 'protection' of legimate services, he apparently was paid well in excess of $5mn. In 1983 he was involved, according to the Happy Hacker website, with Fred Villella, who apparently drew up plans to throw several hundred thousand legal immigrants from Central America into concentration camps if USA invaded Nicaragua. There's a lot more....
Surely one Osama Bin Laden was enough even for the admittedly dead stupid US voters?
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/18/dalai_lama_issues_su.html
One typical such "hacker" is Peter "Mudge" Zatko who testified to the Senate that he could "take the Internet down in 30 minutes". Errm, an unlikely boast to get Govt funds? Anyway, for 'protection' of legimate services, he apparently was paid well in excess of $5mn. In 1983 he was involved, according to the Happy Hacker website, with Fred Villella, who apparently drew up plans to throw several hundred thousand legal immigrants from Central America into concentration camps if USA invaded Nicaragua. There's a lot more....
Surely one Osama Bin Laden was enough even for the admittedly dead stupid US voters?
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/18/dalai_lama_issues_su.html
# posted by uv : 8:18 AM
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