ZDNet Talks to Kevin Mitnick 19
An anonymous reader writes "Notorious hacker turned security consultant Kevin Mitnick touches on a myriad of issues ranging from law enforcement to Microsoft in a short interview with ZDNet. My favorite part is when he's asked if in his mind, Microsoft is a leader and the rest are still catching up. Mitnick answers: 'I am waiting for a case where a software maker gets sued for releasing buggy code, but they will probably cover their ass with the long license agreements that nobody ever reads.'"
The good ole days... (Score:1)
I remember those days where all of these vulnerabilities were being found and Microsoft did squat...until people started attacking their own servers. Then hotfixes wer
The good ole days never ended. Unpatched old holes (Score:1)
http://secunia.com/product/22/ [secunia.com]
http://secunia.com/product/11/ [secunia.com]
It seems "hot fixes" are just for some of the old (and mildly warm) vulnerabilties.
hmm. (Score:1)
Well that's fairly obvious since the FBI does recruit crackers/hackers that they catch. Now they've got a tool box filled with talented convert
Who cares what Kevin thinks? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Who cares what Kevin thinks? (Score:5, Interesting)
One key point about Kevin's story though...He got caught. People seems to ignore the fact that there were plenty of "hackers" at that time and Kevin is the one that was caught. So how does that make him the best or even close to the best? That's like being in a marathon, walking behind everyone, and since you're the one the media can keep up with they are asking you how you stay so fit and healthy. Makes very little sense.
Re:Who cares what Kevin thinks? (Score:1)
no software is bug free (Score:1)
going to be jailed. Seriously, software is sold 'as is', or you must pay a million for a
simple text editor.
Re:no software is bug free (Score:2)
If people get used to the idea of suing if the software has bugs, you'll still get sued, even if your software is free.
Re:no software is bug free (Score:3, Informative)
You are confusing software that has bugs in it with buggy code. Mitnick is referring to gross negligence . In fact, if you RTFA you will find this quote:
"Mitnick: Software is always going to have bugs because there are human beings behind it doing the development."
Stories of a guy who got busted (Score:3)
Re:Stories of a guy who got busted (Score:1)
Lawsuits have already happened... (Score:1)
The Therac-25 [wikipedia.org] had flaws that killed people. Also read the IEEE article [vt.edu].
grammar nazi (Score:2)
-bZj
Re:grammar nazi (Score:1)
Re:grammar nazi (Score:2)
Unless the poster specifically meant 10,000 ways, there is no 'of'.
REF: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=myriad [reference.com]
-bZj