A few years ago, I read an article, about White hat hackers. The White Hat hackers are those hackers who hack websites, profiles and businesses, not with malicious intent; but to bring out the security lapses to the website/profile/business owner; so that he/she or the organization can take the corrective measures and gauze up the possible loopholes. But the thing which remained on my conscious was the statement, made by a guy, who disapproves hacking even for non-malicious intent. To sum up he disapproved of the actions of white hackers as well and bracketed them along with malicious hackers.
What he had said is this,
“Every day when we leave our houses for work, we put a pad lock on the main entrance. Each time we do so, we very well know that it’s not impossible to break the lock. And no matter how strong a lock we put on the door, it remains very breakable. A thieve or a miscreant resolved to get in, will break the lock, one way or the other. But we still put the padlock every time we leave the house.
Why? For one simple reason—A locked door is not to deter away a thieve, as he’ll have his way, no matter what. A pad lock on the door is for a good person, who will just take a u-turn, assuming a locked entrance to be the symbol of inaccessibility.”
Similar thoughts came to my mind while reading a news about an incident in which some employees of Verizon (the company which gets its hands on personal phone call data of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama ) gained unauthorized access to barrack Obama’s cell phone account.
Although those involved are denying such a breach, unauthorized access if true, reminds us of an important lesson—that there’s nothing like "100% secure", and words or symbols like “confidential”, “Top-secret” should be assumed as the symbols of inaccessibility by those who don't have the privilege. And like a good person, one should always take a U-turn, when faced with such a situation.
What he had said is this,
“Every day when we leave our houses for work, we put a pad lock on the main entrance. Each time we do so, we very well know that it’s not impossible to break the lock. And no matter how strong a lock we put on the door, it remains very breakable. A thieve or a miscreant resolved to get in, will break the lock, one way or the other. But we still put the padlock every time we leave the house.
Why? For one simple reason—A locked door is not to deter away a thieve, as he’ll have his way, no matter what. A pad lock on the door is for a good person, who will just take a u-turn, assuming a locked entrance to be the symbol of inaccessibility.”
Similar thoughts came to my mind while reading a news about an incident in which some employees of Verizon (the company which gets its hands on personal phone call data of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama ) gained unauthorized access to barrack Obama’s cell phone account.
Although those involved are denying such a breach, unauthorized access if true, reminds us of an important lesson—that there’s nothing like "100% secure", and words or symbols like “confidential”, “Top-secret” should be assumed as the symbols of inaccessibility by those who don't have the privilege. And like a good person, one should always take a U-turn, when faced with such a situation.
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