Randal Schwartz's Charges Expunged

After 13 years, Randal Schwartz has had his conviction expunged. In effect, legally it never happened. If you haven't heard about this one before, my take is that as a contractor at Intel, Randal did some over-zealous white-hat cracking free-of-charge; this embarrassed some people in management (he pointed out that their passwords were terrible) and management then chose to embarrass themselves further by having him convicted of a felony under an 'anti-hacking' law. More info can be had from the Friends of Randal Schwartz.

If you're going to blow the whistle

[Profane MuthaFucka]

The best way to pass out embarassing information is anonymously. Burn some CD's with the info and leave them around randomly, in places untraceable to you.

Don't touch the CD's with your fingers.
Destroy the CD burner when you're done.
Buy the CD burner secondhand at a garage sale. Pay cash.
Steal the CDs from a college student.
Don't leave the CD in a place where there's a camera.

What else. Help me out here.

Rely on someone else to find the data and spread it around. No need to get yourself into trouble. Have some Common Sense. Do you know what I am speaking of?

In other news...

[FlyByPC]

Breaking news:White-hat hacker's conviction "never happened."

In other news:

• Hell freezes over; Devil announces installation of HVAC units.
• Islam and Judaism to merge; Pope named as new high official.
• Coca-Cola to license soda formula as GPL; KFC to follow suit
• George W. Bush awarded Nobel Peace Prize
• Bill Clinton and Gary Hart take vow of chastity

Re:Legally Never Happened

[hansamurai]

perl will take care of this...

@files = ("terrorist_watch_list.txt", "no_fly.doc", "fbi_persons_of_interest_list.ppt");
foreach $file (@files) {
        unlink($file);
}

Re:an unfortunate encounter

[LarryLong]

Well there you go. I've been trying for years to become more witty and improve my mental processes, and all I had to do was go out and learn Perl. Thanks for the tip. :)

Re:an unfortunate encounter

[Anonymous Coward]

In fairness, you can get a roughly equivalent benefit if you stopped using MFC.

Re:If you're going to blow the whistle

[TommydCat]

What's with the British insistence of misspelling common English words?

Similar to SCO vs IBM

[Anonymous Coward]

SCO is being drained to death by the unfair legal assault by IBM. I hope that SCO wins $2-3 billions in the end. They certainly deserve it.

Re:Legally Never Happened

[Tmack]

If anyone knows how to fix it (and turn it into a one-liner in the process) Randal Schwartz does. ;-)

...using map [perl.com], no doubt. Congrats on a significant victory, Randall!

something like

map({open IN, "<$_";open OUT, ">$_.tmp";foreach $line(<IN>){ $line=~s/Randal Schwartz/Bill Gates/i; print OUT $line; }close IN; close OUT;rename($_.tmp,$_)},["terrorist_watch_list.txt" , "no_fly.doc", "fbi_persons_of_interest_list.ppt"]);

Assuming of course, his name is in plaintext in the doc and ppt files... otherwise, just need to pass it to something that can filter those to text and back.

Tm

Re:Congratulations

[Basehart]

"My conviction was computer-related as well"

What did you do, beat someone to death with a laptop?