Hope this isn't a dupe - Republican spy: I did nothing wrong when I hacked

[devilgrrl]

into Democratic computers

Former GOP staffer Manuel Miranda dismisses illegality or ethical breaches in the Judiciary Committee's mail-snooping scandal.

By Mary Curtius, Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — An international business lawyer by training, Manuel Miranda doesn't fit the mold of a maverick computer hacker. Too old, at 44, to have grown up with computers, he possesses only rudimentary skills.

But during his brief tour on the Senate Judiciary Committee's Republican staff, Miranda, by his own admission, participated in Congress' first known case of cyber-spying, reading some of the 4,000 Democratic computer memos that a clerk on the Republican staff surreptitiously downloaded.   

Now he is a leading player in what some represent as a culture clash between senators governed by the hidebound traditions of their institution and the computer-savvy, ideologically zealous staffers who serve them.

Stocky, graying and publicly denounced by Democratic and Republican senators alike for his role in the caper, Miranda has become something of a hero to some conservative columnists and groups.

more> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-hacker4mar04,1,3246060.story

Isn't amazing that the GOP seems to just make up the rules as they go along?

[tom_paine]

1. Like any Totalitarian Scum throughout history

Laws aren't for the "superior" few only the inferior many. You know...the one's who don;t agree with Totalitarian Scum.

Standard Nazi 101 without the violent reprisals.

Just wait for it. That shoe will eventually drop.

[nickgutierrez]

2. Watergate, v2.0

And the Shrubbies really don't believe that they did anything wrong? Bull.

[GOPisEvil]

3. Reverse the political parties here...

...if this story were the other way 'round, the Republicans would be on and on about the newest "Watergate".

Spare me, Republican hypocrites!

[nickgutierrez]

4. Not just that

It would be on CNN 24/7, Faux News even more than that, if that's possible, every RW talk radio host screaming about this at the top of his lungs... it would be hell.

[namvet73]

5. Too Old, My Ass!

"Too old, at 44, to have grown up with computers, he possesses only rudimentary skills."

I'm 58, been working with computers from punch cards to Assembly in several machines, C, C++, Visual C++, OOP, OOD, Java, HTML, Unix Internals, Windows API, MFC, ActiveX (COM), Etc., bla, bla, bla. Scientific, control systems, financial, sales software, etc., etc. bla bla.
Have worked with computers from top abstraction (classes and APIs) to concrete: design of silicon chip gates that implement the assembly micro instructions that implement the assembly instructions that implement high level language that implement the class.

Older Age does not guarantee one is a cybermoron.


person->Age = old;
person->Computercompetence = !cybermoron;

return (HARUMPH);

Don't ever assume someone is to old to hack.

[whitestar]

6. Too Old, My Ass TOO!

Must be way old to ARPANET the damn stuff.

How 'bout punch cards with round holes, 90 column?

Tape drives with metal leaders and vacuum tubes?

4k of main memory on a drum in a large scale system?

Ah the good old days with Itty Bitty Machines and Univac!!

That even makes me feel old namvet73

whitestar

[Skittles]

7. thank you, nam

I took exception to that too, as someone who was using the military internet in the 70's