Re: [SLUG] this is a bit of a long shot...
On 15/03/2010, at 9:01 AM, meryl wrote: Hi, I am trying to locate a web-article for uni that I came across maybe 2+ years ago. The article debunks the perpetrated myth that Linux users are a bunch of illegal crackers who operate on the fringes of society. iirc, it may have been from an Australian author/blogger. Would you happen to recall this article ( the url)? Or know of another article that follows a similar thread. Hi Meryl, I did some goggling and picked through a couple of journal articles via the Uni's library (UoW). Here's a couple of URL's you may want to reference: Hacking motives High tech crime brief no. 6 Tony Krone ISSN 1832-3413 Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, January 2005 http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/htcb/1-20/htcb006.aspx Securing Linux By Sam Varghese July 3 2003 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/02/1056825450368.html There were more (lots more) when I started using synonym searches in Google (~myth in google will search for that keyword and its synonyms - see http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=35890#synonym). Not knowing exactly what you're looking for or why, makes it a little harder to pick out the wheat from the chaff. Good luck! James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] this is a bit of a long shot...
thanks James Jon for your help. Here's a bit more about what was in the article that I'm trying to find... It commenced with defining the marked differences with the way we, as Linux users, use the terms hacker cracker. And it then discussed how these terms have been confused and misused in the mainstream media and went on to say that the majority of Linux users are law abiding citizens whose main interest is in using non-proprietary software. The article wasn't from a uni journal, it was just a web page on a Linux advocate's website. The main crux of the article's intent was to clear the air over what the average Linux user's character is; how they care about promoting software freedoms, sharing knowledge, how the majority of Linux users do not fit the profile of a cracker. My main reason for trying to find the article is to argue against (what I see as) the totally unfounded crap in this piece of 'scholarly' work: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2417/2240 Personally I don't think that is an accurate assessment of today's Linux user and it certainly does not reflect kindly on the character of the Linux users that I know. cheers, Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] this is a bit of a long shot...
meryl wrote: Here's a bit more about what was in the article that I'm trying to find... Meryl, I've just read the article. I find little in it to take issue with, except his apparent presumption that cracking is a subset of hacking, rather than cracking intersects with hacking. The author apparently believes that all cracking techniques, such as dictionary or brute force attacks for example, are hacks. I doubt any serious hacker would agree. There is little hack value in an obvious approach, the author acknowledges as much himself .. hacking is predicated on novelty or creativity. To state it another way, he believes all cracks are hacks, but not all hacks are cracks. He is therefore unable to properly differentiate cracking from hacking and has conflated them. If I were challenging him I think this would be the basis of my challenge. regards Terry -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] this is a bit of a long shot...
Hi, I am trying to locate a web-article for uni that I came across maybe 2+ years ago. The article debunks the perpetrated myth that Linux users are a bunch of illegal crackers who operate on the fringes of society. iirc, it may have been from an Australian author/blogger. Would you happen to recall this article ( the url)? Or know of another article that follows a similar thread. cheers, Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
