[dundee] Re: any penguins in dundee?

[Andrew Clayton]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:02:37 +0100, rb wrote:

> Ethical hacking, my arse!
> 
> This is either a computer security course (but 4 years for
> Chrissakes!) ...or a course in network intrusion.  Personally, I can't
> see any academic relevance to this whatsoever - but I couldn't see the
> relevance of computer gaming either...
> 
> In any event, I think we have a collective duty to object to the
> "academic" misuse of the H-word!

Seems a not unreasonable course. I'd use the term "White Hat" rather
than ethical though.

I think the damage is long done with the term *hacker* people will
always relate it to badness.


Andrew

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