Comments on: Twitter, Mikeyy, exqSoft, and setting the wrong example http://www.innismir.net/article/275 Pointless, vapid ramblings of a surly information security engineer Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:48:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Stephen Brown http://www.innismir.net/article/275/comment-page-1#comment-165 Stephen Brown Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:31:22 +0000 http://www.innismir.net/?p=275#comment-165 What's sad is that it seems apparent these days that we reward our youth for bad behavior. Ben your right, kids think they have to maliciously attack something to prove their worth and get a career in infosec. I think the overcurious nature exists in all of us, but instead of finding a security hole and exploiting it to the fullest he should have worked with the provider to get it fixed, to me that would have been the good netizen thing to do. Sadly so many fail to embrace this concept... What’s sad is that it seems apparent these days that we reward our youth for bad behavior.

Ben your right, kids think they have to maliciously attack something to prove their worth and get a career in infosec. I think the overcurious nature exists in all of us, but instead of finding a security hole and exploiting it to the fullest he should have worked with the provider to get it fixed, to me that would have been the good netizen thing to do.

Sadly so many fail to embrace this concept…

]]> By: Newton http://www.innismir.net/article/275/comment-page-1#comment-163 Newton Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:10:00 +0000 http://www.innismir.net/?p=275#comment-163 I do not understand why Twitter doesn't go after the guy? I guess I must be too far down the 'old fogey' road, but I definitely see harm here. Good article. I do not understand why Twitter doesn’t go after the guy? I guess I must be too far down the ‘old fogey’ road, but I definitely see harm here. Good article.

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