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NSA Built Stuxnet, but Real Trick Is Building Crew of Hackers | 227 comments | Create New Account

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NSA Built Stuxnet, but Real Trick Is Building Crew of Hackers

Authored by: lnuss on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 08:39 AM EDT

I'd agree with you, in terms of PROPER terminology. Unfortunately, the press
(thus much of the public) has co-opted the term "hacker" to mean what
we think of as "cracker."

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Larry N.

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NSA Built Stuxnet, but Real Trick Is Building Crew of Hackers

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 05:01 PM EDT

The main jist of the article and my post above is that while there are plenty of
"hackers" around, people who love computing, unless we teach them
"cracking" they will never fully understand how exploits work. I
don't condone reckless hacking. SPARSA has facilities set up using
virtualization to conduct research inside sandboxes. The classes we have are
for the most part taught in an air gap lab.

Despite these precautions, we still face paranoia about what we are teaching.
Yet no one would suggest that teaching cops how to use guns is a bad thing
because they may shoot someone.

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