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There was some ongoing consternation at ISS around 96-97 about an employee being a Phrack editor. Management talked to them but it didn't threaten their career.
by NateLawson 6y ago
There was some ongoing consternation at ISS around 96-97 about an employee being a Phrack editor. Management talked to them but it didn't threaten their career.
- tptacek 6y agoYou're not serious. Look at who ran ISS! I have faint memories of SNI people being upset that ISS salespeople tried to pigeonhole us as hackers (this all precedes the widespread adoption of the hat coloration system). I guess, on post-97, pre-99 ISS, I stand corrected. :)
- bink 6y agoWasn't it Klaus who made some ridiculous statement like "no hackers work at ISS" at one point in time?
- tptacek 6y agoI don't want to dunk on Klaus, who seems like a perfectly nice person these days, and this is all way, way in the past, but like: hah, no.
- cklaus 6y agoThanks Thomas. With a team like ISS X-Force, it would be silly to claim there wasn't any hackers involved. Infact, I'm pretty sure there was quite a few Phrack articles written by ISS employees in their earlier life, under their irc names,,, myself included. ;) I think most of the content that would have gone into Phrack in early days became posted as commercial vulnerability research later on.
- tptacek 6y agooh my god Perfectly nice person period! There's an old rivalry with ISS, and a thread about X.25 networks and 40hex puts me back in my Calgary head space.