Mark O. Aldrich wrote:
While there's dubious wisdom in trying to tell Der Polizei, "I was just responding to an authorization that I found on the Internet that says it's OK to phreak your phones - honest," I'd also expect to get paid a hell of a lot more than $65 for doing a penetration test on their network. Sixty five bucks won't even pay the per diem, none the less a reasonable wage.
These continental europeans tend to type '.' instead of commas, and ',' instead of points when they write numbers. (They also have funny ones and sevens, but that's a another story.) I thought the offer of 100,000 DM very respectable, and a tad unusual for a [usually conservative] telecoms company. It sure beats baseball caps and T-shirts.
And Der Polizei is *NOT* known for having a sense of humor about anything, at any time, with anyone.
I 100% agree ...
Remember, kids, they may look like shit in uniform, but those automatic weapons they carry are real, so's the ammo, and they know how to use both of 'em.
... but the semi automatics they carry are not much different to ones US cops have.
And *I'll* decide if and when I want to give it to charity, just like I do with the rest of my salary, thank you....
And *they'll* decide what sort of deal *they* want to offer. They did say the money could be donataed to any non-profit organisation, so this covers a wide range of organisations (your school or university perhaps, or computer society, or even the Church of Scientology, The Vatican, Mitre Corp, NFL, etc. etc.). I wonder if Radikal is a non-profit :-) Gary -- "Of course the US Constitution isn't perfect; but it's a lot better than what we have now." -- Unknown. pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06