On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 01:48:59PM -0800, coderman wrote:
Yes, annoying though that may be to those of us who were called hackers before that became a bad thing. But we're outnumbered thousands-to-one, and we're just not going to win that language war.
use the term "independent security researcher", your legal counsel will thank you!
A cryptographically secure pseudonym would probably work even better. Weev didnt actually do anything wrong that I could see, by any sane interpretation of even something as egregious as CFAA and he's serving 41 months. A lawyer is a last resort, step #1 is not identifying yourself even for non-malicous research I suspect. Probably the biggest risk is the incompatibility of real-space bragging rights to the discovery for people who like to speak at conferences. Adam