Yahoo! News - Bush Adviser Encourages Hacking LAS VEGAS (AP) - A presidential advisor encouraged the nation's top computer security professionals and hackers Wednesday to try to break computer programs, but said they might need protection from the legal wrath of software makers. Richard Clarke, President Bush's computer security advisor, told hackers at the Black Hat conference that most security holes in software are not found by the software maker.
This is an encouraging sign - someone in the right place to make a difference, who realises that "hackers" perform a function which the software makers and sysadmins don't do themselves. The flip side of course is that he also realises many hackers are irresponsible about their findings and do not always act in good faith. It cuts both ways.
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