Thanks for all the criticism and suggestion. This was exactly what i was thinking the day before "The logic bomb should in no way be harsh upon innocent windows users... So we came up with a new Idea... The thing which is not a virus (coz it's gonna do no harm to computers as such) will ask the user when triggered or when trying to copy itself if the user wants to have the thing enter his machine and also provides a "Totally Harmless" certificate from a security testing body, I have not yet thought of what this "body " is going to be but hoping can some how get ClamWin ppl to help us. And there will be a link on the home page about what haker and cracker mean on the Yes No prompt pointing to RFC1392 http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1392.txt which makes the difference very clear... Or if you totally criticise me after all these You are welcome to suggest anything that Uncorkers can do for sf-day (something electronical and ethical)... We promise not to disobey the FOSS philosophy and the moral protocol Thanx a lot! --Shashi On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:36 AM, draicone@gmail.com <draicone@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:54 PM, DK <wplug@curlynoodle.com> wrote:
I agree that SFD should be labeled as "hackers". Mainstream media and advertising uses the term "hacker" to describe a person engaged in criminal behavior. As such, the vast majority of the public have no conception of an "ethical hacker"; its just an oxymoron to most.
I'd go as far as to suggest that ethical hacking isn't at all something we want to be associated with, even in the "tech-savvy" definition. Identifying security vulnerabilities is ethical; exploiting them is not. We are not here to force FOSS onto people, and changing their homepage is akin to making them wake up at the back of a Wal-Mart every morning. We are simply here to encourage them to make their own decision, as they'll probably choose the free software (the cheapest blank CDs?).
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