Hi,
pst wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 15:22 +0200, Serge Marelli wrote:
BTW Pascal,
I read that you're going to give a speech in a hacker/pirate conference!?
I think you are talking about the "rencontre SPIRAL"...
Yes, that's the one...
http://www.spiral.lu/SI/Channel/SPIRAL.nsf/w%20Root?OpenFrameSet&Frame=Main&Src=%2F__c1256b970036a557.nsf%2F0%2Fd840ad615eb7a2cec12571d20047dd74!OpenDocument%26AutoFramed
(why do these URLs have to be so huge ?)
(...)
Would you be so kind as to let them know that there is no such thing as
a computer pirate ? That is a voluntarily misleading image to confuse
people and mix the image of copyright violators with bloodthirsty
murderes and criminals.
See : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy
Well here your a miselading something, the hackers we are talking about
are not the "computer pirates" in a copyright sense, but the real
computer security folk (be they black hats (bad) or white hats
(good)) ...
Rest assured, I'm not misleading nor misunderstanding...
The conference's name/title is "S'il te plaît... dessine moi un pirate
informatique !"... so they're using the word _pirate_ !
I simply object to a misleading point of vocabulary and am trying to
make sure people stop confusing ("white hat") hackers and "black hat"
hackers and copyright violators.
As the conference notice says...
"Escroqueries, espionnage, spamming, abus de confiance... Les
différentes formes de délinquance informatique sont devenues une réalité
indéniable."
as well as
"caractériser précisément les différents types de "hackers" et les
menaces qu'ils représentent."
but rethinking this, it would be a good idea to clarify this point
during my talk
It might be interesting to give the message to the organisers of the
conference as well...
That was what I was counting on (asking ;) you to do...
I'm not sure yet whether I can attend, I'd like to but the day/time
might not work with my schedule.
yrs
Serge