r00ting the hacker - an interview with Dan Verton

Recently I interviewed Dan Verton - the author of The Hacker Diaries: 
Confessions of Teenage Hackers. He is a former intelligence officer in 
the U.S. Marine Corps who currently writes for Computerworld and 
CNN.com, covering national cyber-security issues and critical 
infrastructure protection. (see: www.DanVerton.com)

The interview article can be found here:
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-150.html

It covered a range of issues, (some of which are discussed in The 
Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers) including:
Why the continuous rise in cybercrime; hackers - the ones behind this -
 who are they; what do we know about them beyond the shallow media 
reports; why do they do what they do; a look at the changing hacker 
culture, i.e. the hacking scene today; a look at the contradictions 
and perhaps ironies within this culture; an examination of ethics and 
the sensitivities still involved; and how do the security/law 
enforcement world regard such ethics…

Cheers,

Von

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