Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by clamprecht on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @02:42PM (#8363297)

Is a criminal, or was a criminal? If you claim he is (in 2014) a criminal, is it because of his crimes pre-1995, or some crime he committed in the past year? If your answer is the former, then you are essentially saying "once a criminal, always a criminal." And if you claim that, I will throw some counterexamples in your face, beginning with myself.

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Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by hcarvalhoalves on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @03:18PM (#8363534)

Mitnick probably falls inside the psychopathy spectrum though, so the parent might have used the word in a looser sense.

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Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by sliverstorm on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @04:37PM (#8363992)

This gets into the mild ambiguity of the word... anyone who has been convicted of a crime is by definition a criminal [1]

Calling them a criminal does not necessarily invoke [2]

[1] a person charged with and convicted of crime

[2] a person who commits crimes for a living

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