New Zealand company hires hacker

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Source: *news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7962671.stm

A top New Zealand telecommunications company has hired a teenager who admitted to taking part in an international cyber-crime network.

TelstraClear said former hacker Owen Thor Walker was advising corporate customers on internet crime.

Mr Walker had been at the centre of a criminal network that infiltrated more than a million computers globally.

He was investigated by the authorities in the US, Europe and New Zealand while he was just 16 and still at school.

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Wow!! what a brilliant hacker!!

This guy is a genius...

Don't call him a hacker. The right term for computer experts who use their knowledge for illegal activities is a cracker

Well, the differentiation of the terms based on the moral denominator of the actions has become redundant, so he can very well be termed a hacker.

Hacker is so commonly used that very less people know the difference between hacking and cracking...

^^ Yeah, but the point is, there is no difference anymore.

Ankit fadia :grin:

There IS a strong difference between the terms. A cracker is a type of hacker. A cracker is to hacker what thief is to human. I hope you understand how dumb it sounds when you say "New Zealand company hires hacker". Its like saying "Police hires human" when the actual situation is that the police hired a theaf to go undercover.