Reference: Are Hackers Pioneers with the Right Stuff or Criminal Pathological Scum? Mitch Kabay Reprises

Why Criminal Hackers Must Not Be Rewarded Part 1: The Fruit of the Poisoned Tree By M. E. Kabay, 11/30/2009 In 1995, I participated in a debate with distinguished security expert Robert D. Steele, a vigorous proponent of open-source intelligence. We discussed the advisability of hiring criminal hackers. Perhaps readers will find the polemic I …

Journal: German Hackers Point to 9-11 Text Messages

Text messages sent in the hours before and during 9-11 are now becoming available for public examination. It will take time, but a number of individuals are working through them (remember what the Iranians did with CIA’s singular shredded messages) and we anticipate findings within a few months.  We’ve also suggest a quick tag cloud …

2008 Earth Intelligence Network Brief to Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE)

At the recommendation of Winn Schwartau, Robert Steele was invited to open Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) in New York City in 1994, and has been a speaker each conference since then.  Although 2008 was billed as the last event, it may continue.  Steele also does a “SPY IMPROVE: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know …

INTERVIEW: PBS Frontline with Robert Steele on Hackers

PBS FRONTLINE Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Source Solutions, Inc. (OSS) he has twenty years of experience in national and defense intelligence, including clandestine, covert action and technical collection, and managing an offensive counterintelligence program. He was the senior civilian responsible for creating the Marine Corps Intelligence Center. He participated in the …