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Well, think about it....

Who do casinos hire to help them with finding the holes in their surveillance and gaming practices? Ex-con gamblers.
Who do network security companies hires to find flaws in their software? Convicted hackers and script kiddies.

This doesn't seem all that out of the ordinary....
 
Originally posted by dohcvtec_accord@Feb 24 2005, 04:28 PM
Well, think about it....

Who do casinos hire to help them with finding the holes in their surveillance and gaming practices? Ex-con gamblers.
Who do network security companies hires to find flaws in their software? Convicted hackers and script kiddies.

This doesn't seem all that out of the ordinary....
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True.
 
That is a good point about the hackers being hired and what not. And really if companies come out with bete spy ware someone will create somthing to stop it. They will just have to be more creative about it. I think that there should be some sort of education for the general user in how not to get spy ware or mal ware. Thats why I want a job in the government to try and make changes you know?
 
we actually did this once. My friends and I were talking to the computer admin at my school(old school, im grauated now) anyway he told us to try and hack the schools network, and see what we could get into and what we couldnt, and let him know.
well, we told him "most" of the stuff we could get into, the rest was games and movies that we found on a computer being ran as a server that he didnt know about.

I was in the computer technology class so we used to mess with the network all the time. b4 we graduated we loaded the nimbda virus/worm onto the network. He knew it was us, and he said it kept him "busy" for a while.
hehe.
hiring hackers, and ex cons, and spyware experts are the best way to make stuff better.
 
Ever see the movie "Catch me if you can", the idea of the movie came from the book "Twisted Genius, Confessions of a $10 million Dollar Scam", they had to change many policies one was the NY Times (I think that was the paper), because this person used to write fake bills to people in the obituaries (papers used to list names and addresses of the people's families as well as the deceased).

You wanna know something, I know the person who wrote that book, you know what else he's a relative, lastly it's my father. Sure I shouldn't be proud of it, but I gotta give him credit, he was one/still is smart motherfucker.

I'm telling you read that fuckin book, I don't read but I had to read that because it was my father's book. And some of the shit he did was just ....(word)....
 
so your'e saying "Catch me if you Can" is based on your fathers life story..... that Leonardo DiCapiro was acting out events that your father actually did.

thats a tough one to swallow. but if its true thats fucking awesome man. Your father is one observant mother F'er.
 
Originally posted by dohcvtec_accord@Feb 24 2005, 05:28 PM
Well, think about it....

Who do casinos hire to help them with finding the holes in their surveillance and gaming practices? Ex-con gamblers.
Who do network security companies hires to find flaws in their software? Convicted hackers and script kiddies.

This doesn't seem all that out of the ordinary....
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He aint no hacker. Draper or Mitnick... now you're talking.

I know Draper's nephew. He and Draper popped in on a conf we did a long time ago. Very cool guy.
 
so your'e saying "Catch me if you Can" is based on your fathers life story..... that Leonardo DiCapiro was acting out events that your father actually did.

thats a tough one to swallow. but if its true thats fucking awesome man. Your father is one observant mother F'er.
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Read the book. Of course the movie was alot different. Hell gimme $15 and I'll have him sign it and write whatever the hell you want in it.

And yes, he really did a lot of that shit, he still is one rich mofucka too.

He raked in 120-150k this year with "tristateauctiom"...just for him (legally this time), he has uhmm 5 people working for him. If I added up from when he started it, 7 years ago, he would have made more than 1.1 million just on the internet. In 2004, we spent $14,000 on postage alone, yes fourteen thousand dollars in postage for mainly books.
 
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Sabz5150 @ Feb 24 2005 said:
dohcvtec_accord
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Sabz5150 @ Feb 24 2005 said:
@Feb 24 2005, 05:28 PM
Well, think about it....

Who do casinos hire to help them with finding the holes in their surveillance and gaming practices? Ex-con gamblers.
Who do network security companies hires to find flaws in their software? Convicted hackers and script kiddies.

This doesn't seem all that out of the ordinary....
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He aint no hacker. Draper or Mitnick... now you're talking.

I know Draper's nephew. He and Draper popped in on a conf we did a long time ago. Very cool guy.
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I wasn't putting him into the hacker category. I was just giving related examples. Part of the article read

"...former 'Privacy Officer' has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security's 'Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee...'"

I was just saying that, common practice is to put someone in charge that knows how to bring down the very thing you're trying to protect. They've got a Data Privacy and Integrity protection committee, so they appoint someone who knows the dirty secrets about undermining privacy.
 
Originally posted by 92civicb18b1@Feb 25 2005, 06:45 AM
so your'e saying "Catch me if you Can" is based on your fathers life story..... that Leonardo DiCapiro was acting out events that your father actually did.

thats a tough one to swallow. but if its true thats fucking awesome man. Your father is one observant mother F'er.
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Read the book. Of course the movie was alot different. Hell gimme $15 and I'll have him sign it and write whatever the hell you want in it.

And yes, he really did a lot of that shit, he still is one rich mofucka too.

He raked in 120-150k this year with "tristateauctiom"...just for him (legally this time), he has uhmm 5 people working for him. If I added up from when he started it, 7 years ago, he would have made more than 1.1 million just on the internet. In 2004, we spent $14,000 on postage alone, yes fourteen thousand dollars in postage for mainly books.
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hey thats cool. yeah people can bullshit over the internet and shit, but if thats true then thats hella cool. I still havent seen the movie or read the book. i might have to check it out.
 
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senate_9427 @ Feb 25 2005 said:
92civicb18b1
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senate_9427 @ Feb 25 2005 said:
@Feb 25 2005, 06:45 AM
so your'e saying "Catch me if you Can" is based on your fathers life story..... that Leonardo DiCapiro was acting out events that your father actually did.

thats a tough one to swallow. but if its true thats fucking awesome man. Your father is one observant mother F'er.
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Read the book. Of course the movie was alot different. Hell gimme $15 and I'll have him sign it and write whatever the hell you want in it.

And yes, he really did a lot of that shit, he still is one rich mofucka too.

He raked in 120-150k this year with "tristateauctiom"...just for him (legally this time), he has uhmm 5 people working for him. If I added up from when he started it, 7 years ago, he would have made more than 1.1 million just on the internet. In 2004, we spent $14,000 on postage alone, yes fourteen thousand dollars in postage for mainly books.
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hey thats cool. yeah people can bullshit over the internet and shit, but if thats true then thats hella cool. I still havent seen the movie or read the book. i might have to check it out.
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ahh, not bullshitting, get the book, turn the cover over look at the picture, when you come back I'll take a picture of my father. I can take a pic of the Postage Machine, it shows $10001.xx now.
 
Originally posted by dohcvtec_accord@Feb 24 2005, 05:28 PM
Well, think about it....

Who do casinos hire to help them with finding the holes in their surveillance and gaming practices? Ex-con gamblers.
Who do network security companies hires to find flaws in their software? Convicted hackers and script kiddies.

This doesn't seem all that out of the ordinary....
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Good points. reminds me of that new reality show or whatever it is on TLC I believe.

"It takes a thief"

They have reformed thieves break into peoples houses to show them how vulnerable their residence really is.
 
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