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15 Minute audio interview with Jacob Appelbaum, freelance security consultant, participant and facilitator at this year's Summer Source Camp in Croatia. Jake talks about trojans, the benefits of open source software, black and white hat hacking, cracking and the neccessity of cryptography. And although his oversimplification of "hackers are good, crackers are bad" could be countered with the benevolent and educational approach of many crackers, for instance crackers of copy protection and their "learn how to use it, buy if you like it" approach, the interview gives a good summary of a hacker's perspective on these topics.

Jake on security -

Jacob Appelbaum
Jacob Appelbaum

The interview was recorded by Yuwei Lin.

Read more about this year's Summer Source Camp here:
 http://de.indymedia.org/2003/09/61114.shtml

Jake Appelbaum's site:
 http://www.appelbaum.net/



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