Why teenagers hack: a personal memoir

Steven Alexander · ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE · 2005

Browsing through some old issues of ;login online, I came across the Ponit/Counterpoint that Tina Darmohray and Rob Kolstad wrote in April of 2002 about the possible culpability of the security community in the hacking career of Ben Breuninger, a.k.a. konceptor (The young man was invited to represent the black hats at a computer conference in Orlando, Florida) Both their points of view are interesting. I do agree with Rob that a twenty-one-year-old ought to have known better. But sometimes growing up is hard to do.

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