MetaFilter posts tagged with hacker and hackers

plinth — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:57:17 -0800

How to care for you brand new hacker. [via memepool. Quicktime movie, 3.1M. Astoundingly accurate.

da5id — Mon, 24 Apr 2000 04:26:45 -0800

Feds seize Cuban Hacker in a raid early morning this weekend. 6 year old Elian Gonzalez was arrested for hacking Microsoft. c4str0 oWnz j00 d4d! Check out this hilarious spoof.

tiaka — Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:33:32 -0800

Canada arrests hacker' father. Strange, I don't recall anything like this ever happening. Your thoughts?

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:30:28 -0800

They bagged the kid who was responsible for all those Denial-of-Service attacks a couple of months ago. He's Canadian.

Here's an interesting legal question: could the US extradite him? The crimes were committed in the US, but he was in Canada at the time he did it, since he worked through the Internet. Whose laws apply?

(By the way, I've seen no indication that the US is considering extradition; I was just curious whether they could extradite him.)

mathowie — Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:47:24 -0800

Last night Kevin Mitnick was on 60 minutes (the gist of the interview is quoted here), and I have to say he came off as an utterly harmless geek. He was an information junkie that enjoyed the challenge of cracking firewalls. He never profited from his activities and the affected companies made up their monetary losses. It's a shame he was forced to waste away in prison instead of offer his security expertise to the affected companies.