MJR - 6 dumbest ideas

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security is getting a bit of attention lately. Some groups get it, some miss the point as expected.

I dig Marcus’ link to his own book:

My book has not sold very well!! Why don’t you buy a copy?

The best nit picking refutation I’ve found (and can’t seem to find again) focuses on #4: Hacking is cool. If hacking is taken as a means of leveraging power by oppressed peoples, isn’t it cool? Abused by corporations or a government through technology? Learn to hack the technology and fight the man! This makes sense to me but again misses MJR’s point; the problem is the hype associated with criminal applications of hacking.

A random comment from someone no-doubt following a google link to jokerbone that relied on some mod_rewrite trick which I no longer use sums up Hacking-is-Cool very nicely…

i wanna A program to hack i wanna to be A famous Spy in the world

Note: I traced the commenters IP to somewhere in South America back when that was posted, content is more important here than poor grammar.