Editor's Corner

Eons ago, when computer hacker Kevin Mitnick was sentenced to jail, I thought a better punishment would have been for him to use his extensive hacking knowledge in a good way--by sharing what he did and how he did it with the government and private sector IT organizations. He's actually doing that now, as a paid consultant for top companies. Now there's a second opportunity to put that type of knowledge to work. A British security hacker is very likely heading to U.S. court on charges he broke into systems at the Army, Navy, Pentagon, Air Force and NASA. If the U.S. succeeds in bringing him over for trial, and if he's convicted, he should have the opportunity to turn his bad deeds into good deeds for the benefit of federal and state cybersecurity and systems security. - Judy