LinuxWorld: What's the hat got to do with it? - Setting the record straight on Chris Klaus and ISS | Linux Today

LinuxWorld: What’s the hat got to do with it? – Setting the record straight on Chris Klaus and ISS

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 6, 2000

All wrong” may even include trying to use white hats and
black hats to categorize individuals in the phreaking/cracking
community as either “good” or “evil.
” More than one reader
wrote that if you are a part of the computer underworld, you are
part of it, period. I can see where they are coming from. Illegal
electronic breaking and entering or theft of services puts you in
that world — whether you do it for kicks, for money, or for
malicious intent is a side issue.”

“This week, I am going to retrace the steps I took in
researching the ISS piece and, wherever I can, show how I got it
wrong. I’m not attempting to dodge responsibility for being wrong;
I’m just trying to set the record straight now that I have more
information….”

“Originally, I read these attempts by Klaus to disassociate
himself from the cracking/phreaking community as evidence of the
purity of his soul. By now, I was so convinced that my original
take on Klaus had been wrong, I wrote that he “appears to have
always been on the side of the angels…didn’t hang out on an
‘elite’ BBS…didn’t sit on IRC and try to build a rep on
#hack….”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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