The comments are rife with tard splendor.

This is completely unacceptable. There are plenty of qualified Light Tangents who could do the job as well or better.

Snarfangel: This is completely unacceptable. There are plenty of qualified Light Tangents who could do the job as well or better.

You fight the terrorists with the Tangent you have---not the Tangent you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Its one thing to sit down and talk with Iran but Hackers??

Where is this crazy Administration leading us to!

I don't know about this. I heard him give a speech when he said that he things a wise Dark Tangent will make better decisions than a wise Light Tangent.

This is just the first step in what is going to be a strange, strange world in 30-40 years.

We're going to have people in the public eye, people who are running for president, or are presidential appointments, and the media investigations will have to include things like "Sir, is it true that in 2023-2025, you used the pseudonym 'DedHed4bsolver' while managing a list.serv which trafficked in illegal schematics for 3D printers, releasing copywritten material to the world without approval?"shiats gonna be weird.

ninjakirby: This is just the first step in what is going to be a strange, strange world in 30-40 years.

We're going to have people in the public eye, people who are running for president, or are presidential appointments, and the media investigations will have to include things like "Sir, is it true that in 2023-2025, you used the pseudonym 'DedHed4bsolver' while managing a list.serv which trafficked in illegal schematics for 3D printers, releasing copywritten material to the world without approval?"shiats gonna be weird.

And you'll pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to people who will professionally sanitize the paper trail that is your public past.

Occam's Chainsaw: And you'll pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to people who will professionally sanitize the paper trail that is your public past.

Hell, people pay a monthly fee to create that paper trail.

Dark Tangent? So is this another affirmative action pick?

Thomas Gabriel approves.

\obvious

ninjakirby: This is just the first step in what is going to be a strange, strange world in 30-40 years.

We're going to have people in the public eye, people who are running for president, or are presidential appointments, and the media investigations will have to include things like "Sir, is it true that in 2023-2025, you used the pseudonym 'DedHed4bsolver' while managing a list.serv which trafficked in illegal schematics for 3D printers, releasing copywritten material to the world without approval?"shiats gonna be weird.

Are you now or have you ever been a btard?

ninjakirby: This is just the first step in what is going to be a strange, strange world in 30-40 years.

We're going to have people in the public eye, people who are running for president, or are presidential appointments, and the media investigations will have to include things like "Sir, is it true that in 2023-2025, you used the pseudonym 'DedHed4bsolver' while managing a list.serv which trafficked in illegal schematics for 3D printers, releasing copywritten material to the world without approval?"shiats gonna be weird.

As it should be.

VictoryCabal: Dark Tangent? So is this another affirmative action pick?

Thread over.

Mentat: Are you now or have you ever been a btard?

Could you please explain to your constituents this video, uploaded by you, to Youtube, showing your reaction to an infamous 'shock' video? Specifically sir, why you are laughing?

I hope he knows it's a series of tubes not a big truck.

I CAN HAZ ADMINISTRATION POSITION?

I've never understood how someone can be a better hacker than someone else. I mean, knowledge of networks and security is pretty finite, and at some point, it seems like there would be parity among experienced hackers.

What room is there for individual "skill" to express itself in hacking? Someone educate me.

"Now, could you clear up for the panel what a 'Mudkip' is an exactly why you 'liek' them so much?"

/CSPAN is going to become lulztastic

bobbarker02: I've never understood how someone can be a better hacker than someone else. I mean, knowledge of networks and security is pretty finite, and at some point, it seems like there would be parity among experienced hackers.

What room is there for individual "skill" to express itself in hacking? Someone educate me.

Some of it comes down to script knowledge. Who can build a better Bagle or Sasser.

Some of it comes down to bot nets. Like PharmaMaster and his DDOS bots; shut down an anti-spam company and a good chunk of the Israeli net.

Some of it is infiltration. Knowledge of ports, proxies, firewalls, and the ability to maneuver, so to speak, without getting caught.

And still some of it is the ability to manipulate data remotely, either removing/copying files...or leaving someone a "present."

A lot of different skills and knowledge, I guess. And like everything else in the IT industry, there's not a single person who knows it all.

Smart move. Now hire a well-renowned"coyote" to be on the Council as well to help with the borders.

/Just going to be hard for Obama to read reports in £€€7§p€@k
//0b4m4 $71££ $µ(|{$

Interesting, "ooutside the box" thinking. DO hackers see this guy as a "sell out"?

Hack system.
Declare yourself rehabilitated.
Get hired.
Profit.

This appointment sets a poor precedence for the youth of our nation!

He seems like someone who can be trusted.

wasn't this a movie? hacker gets job in the govt and uses the access to the mainframe to hack all the world's banks and steal all the money holding it for ransom?

someone call Bruce Willis

ninjakirby: This is just the first step in what is going to be a strange, strange world in 30-40 years.

We're going to have people in the public eye, people who are running for president, or are presidential appointments, and the media investigations will have to include things like "Sir, is it true that in 2023-2025, you used the pseudonym 'DedHed4bsolver' while managing a list.serv which trafficked in illegal schematics for 3D printers, releasing copywritten material to the world without approval?"shiats gonna be weird.


So maybe I should have used a different screen name when I posted all those comments on ass-to-mouth videos on fantasti.cc? Damn. Everybody knows I am Hibno. I'm ruined.

DeathByGeekSquad: Hack system.
Declare yourself rehabilitated.
Get hired.
Profit.

This appointment sets a poor precedence for the youth of our nation!

Has Moss ever been prosecuted for violating the law? /doesn't see anything in his wiki to such effect

Maybe someone can hack al-Qaeda? That is assuming that caves in rural Pakistan have Internet access.

Oh well, Iran certainly has computers...

Next up, Phreaker to head NSA.



/anyway, this is good move Obama's part.

He doesn't look all that dark.

TheMysteriousStranger: Maybe someone can hack al-Qaeda? That is assuming that caves in rural Pakistan have Internet access.

If there's a group of angry, sexually repressed men gathered together for extended periods of time, I'm pretty sure they're finding a way to access internet porn.

Wizzin: He doesn't look all that dark.

He's a Sekrit Black Man

Mentat: ninjakirby: This is just the first step in what is going to be a strange, strange world in 30-40 years.

We're going to have people in the public eye, people who are running for president, or are presidential appointments, and the media investigations will have to include things like "Sir, is it true that in 2023-2025, you used the pseudonym 'DedHed4bsolver' while managing a list.serv which trafficked in illegal schematics for 3D printers, releasing copywritten material to the world without approval?"shiats gonna be weird.

Are you now or have you ever been a btard?

How do you determine good ways of sorting one million 32-bit integers in two megabytes of RAM?

Hasn't he seen Die Hard 4? This can only end badly.

Let me know when the Night Watch takes over border security. You never know when an unlicensed vampire might try to sneak in.

Awesome.

Illidan: Has Moss ever been prosecuted for violating the law? /doesn't see anything in his wiki to such effect

Nope.

The irony is that some of the best who were persecuted, sent to jail, and served their sentence can't get work for most companies that need it the most in the US (like financial, medical, government, etc) these days. So someone like Kevin Mitnick tends to do a lot of work for Russian and other countries companies.

/been to 11 defcons

bobbarker02: I've never understood how someone can be a better hacker than someone else. I mean, knowledge of networks and security is pretty finite, and at some point, it seems like there would be parity among experienced hackers.

What room is there for individual "skill" to express itself in hacking? Someone educate me.

Like any skill or profession - there are those that are better at it than others. And the knowledge of networks and security is not finite by any scale of the imagination. The reason I am in this industry is that it changes every day.

Spot the Fed just got a whole lot easier at DefCon this year.

But my hacker handle Dark Taint is curiously absent. Hmmmm.

ninjakirby: We're going to have people in the public eye, people who are running for president, or are presidential appointments, and the media investigations will have to include things like "Sir, is it true that in 2023-2025, you used the pseudonym 'DedHed4bsolver' while managing a list.serv which trafficked in illegal schematics for 3D printers, releasing copywritten material to the world without approval?"

I don't recall.

nonsequitor: pot the Fed just got a whole lot easier at DefCon this year.

Came here for this. A+++, would buy again.

KhamanV: Let me know when the Night Watch takes over border security. You never know when an unlicensed vampire might try to sneak in.

If Obama let a Russian organization control border security I think we'd have bigger problems than the occasional vampire.

/awesome reference
//awesome movie

the real question is if he moves to DC...will he buy a house or a loft?

'bout farkin' time.

What's cool is that he gets to confirm on the inside,
what he learned by hacking and connections on the outside.
Almost the best validation.

I hope they can put his knowledge to good use,
both on defensive and offensive aspects
and revealing mysteries or covering up holes.

Maybe he can give the new CIO some tips too.

Falcc: KhamanV: Let me know when the Night Watch takes over border security. You never know when an unlicensed vampire might try to sneak in.

If Obama let a Russian organization control border security I think we'd have bigger problems than the occasional vampire.

/awesome reference
//awesome movie

Barrack Hussein Obama would hire Arabian chapter of Day Watch

LewDux: Barrack Hussein Obama would hire Arabian chapter of Day Wat

Wake me when he hires the female chapter of Bay Watch.

/whargarrble strong with this one

I hope Dark Tangent frees Kevin!

Hobodeluxe: wasn't this a movie? hacker gets job in the govt and uses the access to the mainframe to hack all the world's banks and steal all the money holding it for ransom?

someone call Bruce Willis

Came here for this, now leaving happily.

This thread is full of win.

ratagorda: I hope Dark Tangent frees Kevin!

Mitnick is a tard and got what he deserved for being stupid.