Having known several folks in both of those camps, my experience is that career choice provides very little information about the chooser's ethics.
I will note that both categories have complex relationships with following the law, both personally and professionally.
tldr from this 2 minute intro is that they caught Sabu and said you can have 120+ years in prison or join them...
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-hacker-and...
https://www.abagnale.com/Frank-W-Abagnale-Jr-Film-And-Book-C...
https://whyy.org/segments/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/
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Created a post for topic, since I don’t think most people are aware:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale#Veracity_of_cla...
He and this FBI guy would approach random kids on IRC in order to entice them to join "his" prestigious hacker group. They weren't going after existing criminals, but going out of their way to create new ones. Largely underage children.
Sabu worked hard to entrap more and more people, largely underage children, and had a lot of fun doing so.
This isn't a guy who simply made a deal to save his own ass and felt bad about it. Sabu never apologized, but rather proceeded to attack the people he'd entrapped.
It's not like this is an unique story either, Maksym Popov comes to mind.
dear Apple: you have 27% market share of podcast apps. please recognize that the rest of us like using other apps and stop pushing your defaults so hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YoDt-MxhHg
871,836 views - 4.48K subscribers - nerdysouth
UPDATE 2012.03.09 i may indeed be the first rapper in history to endorse a suspected internet snitch. evidence is somewhat overwhelming for it to be simply a disinformation campaign, but, personally, i believe the truth is somewhere in the middle. i will discuss some of my thoughts on www.ytcracker.com.
i sadly will probably retire this song in its current form from my live performances just because i can't in good conscience rap about this until the grieving period has passed and this song becomes vintage and cute again.
kind of like jokes about the spanish inquisition being funny now but they weren't very funny in the years circa 1478-1834 (yes, i did wikipedia this).
we now return to your regularly scheduled video information.
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1999 bitch. (click "show more" if you like reading lyrics and want mp3 and stuff) swed.
twitters: @lulzsec @realytcracker @beats
www.ytcracker.com www.digitalgangster.com
download link: http://ytcracker.com/antisec/ytcracke...
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lyrics:
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im the defacto leader of a movement
screaming "hack the planet" back in 99
hacktivism in its prime globalHell had the .mil rooted
alphabet soup and their troops in the suits kid
kicking down doors and seizing my equipment
blocking all my shipments sitting on their hitlist
0day radical emphatic beat addict
and that stab hit i envelope the game call me rabbit
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hop to hop i run the internet equivocally
bitch i be hit em with the bytestyle symmetry
digi g digital gangster repping till im dead
steady grep apache logs when im looking for the feds
fast forward now the internet anonymous
and captains of the lulzboat raise the mast prominent
dominant hacks - antisec on that new new
dropping tables in mysql like it was some poo poo
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pound antisec - pounding through your speakers
pound antisec - pound it to the bleachers
pound antisec - if youre sitting below deck
in the lulzboat salute bitch and show some respect
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lulzsec bitch they fold ya hacked sony
got that md5 we rocked ya macaroni
cook coke crack then boil like a noodle
while hbgary stay toast like a streudel
rootshell on ya bootstrap - now whos that?
botnet mjoin and drop your whole c class
see class? it is evident we flossing
ion cannon in the proc list ddossing
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lean back bitch we be sending an injection
magic quotes off JOIN TABLE intersection
put it up on pastebin it wont get erased then
20 million hits to your dome like some cavemen
ask cnn - you want a interview?
send a PRIVMSG to the nickname sabu
on irc - man we convening
this some 99 throwback shit that im screaming
