You're welcome for the self-promotion.

I feel that telling people to just blaze through functional programming is silly, as completely understanding CS roots (instead of sticking to today's easy languages) and understanding all the programming paradigms are important.

Good luck with that shamelessly using networks crap. It makes friends I'm sure.

Thanks for recognizing one of the biggest downfalls of it. They could be opening the Apple platforms for massive "protect yourself" scare sales.

This is a great step. I am personally pretty hateful of Apple's decisions as far as hardware lockdown and restrictive use, but it's a tradeoff they offer customers and many consider it a good deal.

That aside, being more security minded as opposed to claiming immunity for marketing purposes is a fantastic move and one to be applauded by the tech community.

Sweet, hey I'm going to post a few games coming out soon that I hope they get adequate funding too.

First is Anarchy Reigns, being published by Platinum. Sega's shaky on US releases of games like this, so if you guys would self-hype and pre-order I'd like it a lot.

Also...I may or may not be a Platinum fanboy/employee trying to push viral status.

Just as much as the game itself, and patches to it. Nothing is that tentative. Once they give up some, they set a precedent.

When they call Anonymous a hacking collective, you know they're either too stupid, or too corrupt to say it like it is.

They're just a bunch of stupid kids, and I wouldn't label what Anonymous as a whole is doing as hacking regardless of how you painted it. Lulzsec on the hand...are a bunch of kids who learned TRICKS before they gained the knowledge that comes with it.

After years of learning and you get to a point of finding exploits yourself, you understand at this point WHY doing things is a bad idea.

They skipped the learning phase and just learned some stupid tricks that allowed them to do a lot of damage while knowing little.

It brings to mind the old infosec adage: What's the difference between hacking and pentesting? Permission.

The best hackers learn quickly to become security researchers/GRC/application security/etc. The rest end up in jail or swimming in debt from the lawsuits. It's okay to break things as long as you've been given permission to break them, and generally that permission comes with a clause to give advice on how to make sure it doesn't get broken again.

It's natural selection in the hacker realm. If you want to survive, you have to play by the rules.

There was a slip which led to his capture. Instead of paying the unfettered price for the crimes he committed, he ratted out his friends in a blatant abuse of the system in order to lessen his punishment.

The lesson for today kids, is never commit a crime alone, so you have someone to rat out on for that plea deal!

Why are plea bargains to help capture more people an abuse of the system?

Agreed. I'd rather see all of them go down with lessened punishment than one go down while the rest are off the hook. Although I don't like plea bargains which let the squealer off the hook.

That's the point. If they were doing their job and interrogating well as well as investigating well they'd catch them all just like Sabu. Unfortunately they're not and it's easier to offer a plea deal after a short period of intimidation so they do that. I think they should all pay, but this way they just abuse something built into the system that was made as an incentive for people they didn't think they COULD catch otherwise.

With Sabu, they caught him on mere chance. He connected directly to IRC from his home address, without proxies or going to a wifi hotspot to hide himself. Not everyone will make that mistake, and then it becomes infinitely harder to find them. It's about resource management.

  > If they were doing their job and interrogating well
  > as well as investigating well they'd catch them all
  > just like Sabu.

They used the fact that Sabu had their trust. The idea that they would be able to plant someone in LulzSec and take then down from the insider within 7 months seems laughable.

Thanks for posting a link to your own basic html how-to on hacker news.

I wish I could downvote.

Let us hope the community is smarter than to support this self-serving, pointless endeavor.

Thanks for spamming hacker news with multiple of the same article. I hope your karma rating is worth the damage it does to the community.

"The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: both civil and substantial. [...] Which brings us to the most important principle on HN: civility. Since long before the web, the anonymity of online conversation has lured people into being much ruder than they'd dare to be in person. So the principle here is not to say anything you wouldn't say face to face." -- http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

I think the guy wasn't thinking the situation through entirely, but someone of (relative respect I suppose, creator of PHP is still the creator of something widely used) respect shouldn't be acting like this. It's always a shame to see people who have promise and talent show how childish they CAN act. Having his underling (someone who works on his language of no known note) make a smartassed response was in turn also pointless and negative whether he requested/urged it passively or not.