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Black Hat USA 2007: That's a wrap (Linux.com)

[Posted August 6, 2007 by jake]

Linux.com's Joe Barr reports from this year's Black Hat conference. "I had one particular question in mind when I came to Black Hat this year: who does the the black hat ops for the United States? Unfortunately, I still don't have a good answer for that, though I probably have a better understanding than when I arrived. Black Hat and Defcon are crawling with feds each year, but all the feds who are willing to talk even in general terms about what they do say they are involved in keeping the bad guys out of our computers, not breaking into the Department of Defense systems in Hackistan, or wherever."

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Black Ops won't talk to Press: DUH!

Posted Aug 7, 2007 15:58 UTC (Tue) by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256) [Link]

Talk about a no-brainer and non-news item!

A member of the press goes to a conference looking for "spies" (black
ops hackers) and finds that no one will admit to being one, and no one
will talk about "breaking into Hackistan" (or whatever). Wow? And
in other news there's a big ball of fire that's lighting up the sky
this morning --- and it's just a little under a 100 million miles
from Earth!

Oi Vey!

JimD