Re: Ikeee worm author gets a job developing iPhone apps

[Jason Ross <algorythm () gmail com>]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Robert Portvliet
<robert.portvliet () gmail com> wrote:
> Well, it's certainly not without precedent
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/17/twitter_worm_job/
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/595
>
> http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2000/09/va_cihauthor.html
>
> I'm sure there's other instances...

Absolutely there are. Mitnick for example, probably many more.
Precedence doesn't make it right though ;-)

It's one of my "pet peeves" so to speak, and something that
I feel is wrong with our industry.

I should mention that I have no problem with learning from one's mistakes
nor with employing people that have made mistakes in the past. My concern
is around rewarding those mistakes (or seeming to anyway).

We're doing something wrong as an industry when companies are so desperate
for "talent" that they throw themselves at people who have taken (what I see as)
the low road beause they see that as an indication of skill.

We're doing something wrong as a society when that becomes the norm.

*shrug*.
It's all personal interpretation I suppose, and I'm willing to accept
that I could be
mistaken. I honestly don't think I am though =)

--
jason
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