[free-sklyarov] PLEASE No Mitnick Comparisons!!!

[Declan McCullagh]

The comparison was to the "irate hackers" doing defacements in both
cases. A secondary comparison was to both Mitnick and Sklyarov both
being hacker-heroes.

I didnn't compare the "offenses" of both Mitnick and Sklyarov, nor
would I. I don't recall all the details of Micnick's case, but the
analog of breaking and entering and trespass seems to enter into it.
What Sklyarov did was simply write code (and, perhaps, talk about it).

-Declan



On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:06:42PM -0700, hackhawk wrote:
> I just read Declan McCullagh's article titled "Slyarov Release in Feds' 
> Hands", and I was a little disturbed.
> 
> Maybe it wasn't meant to be, but the following statement is a very negative 
> reference in my mind.
> ================================================================
> just as irate hackers once defaced websites with "Free Kevin" slogans -- a 
> reference to convicted
> hacker-hero Kevin Mitnick -- some seem to be doing the same now with Sklyarov.
> ================================================================
> 
> I must admit I'm not 100% familiar with the details of Kevin Mitnicks 
> troubles.  But I DO know he had been accused of playing games with 
> governement agencies and taunting them.  What got him caught was playing 
> games with a Security Professional who got ticked off enough to help 
> authorities catch him.  This is NOT the case with Dmitry at all.  I believe 
> that there is a far wider range of supporters for Dmitry.
> 
> - hh
> 
> 
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