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Source: Cnet - Posted by Eckie Silapaswang   
First thing's first - I'm extremely biased in favor of this type of article because I identify with the creative hacker. The media-slanted definition of 'hacker' does the title no justice for the innovative, out-of-the-box, dedicated minds of the world which make word processing programs or the 'Internets' easy for even the media to use. This article covers the general feel of both Blackhat and DefCon conferences with a nod towards the NBC Dateline incident.

I'm just going to say I'm glad that NBC got ousted the way they did. Why can other national news organizations such as the Washington Post and USA Today go to the conferences and simply cover the event rather than trying to find a hacker 'caught in the act'? The only crime I see happening is a reporter attempting to leech and gain monetary advantage by attempting to slander the name of creative minds. This is another case of someone not understanding what someone else does, can't even comprehend what it takes to be that person, but somehow has an opinion on the matter.

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