June 9, 2003
Cnn: Hacker gathering is a roundup of cyberspace cowboys
My spin: Hackers - there are good one who want to help with their technical knowledge and their are bad ones who only want to harm.
News Clip: PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The way Louis Trumpbour sees it, most computer hackers aren't criminals, they're more like cowboys -- frontiersmen most at home on the range known as cyberspace. The 29-year-old tavern owner from Berlin, Germany, is leading SummerCon, a gathering of roughly 200 hackers in Pittsburgh that began Friday and runs through Sunday.
The event has been held every year but one since 1985 and this year organizers hope to convince the public -- and federal regulators -- that there are "black hats" and "white hats" in Hackerville. (full story)
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