[Dimensio]

Geez, I'm blind. I didn't realise that this was put up by the same guy who yesterday blasted an MIT grad student for hacking the XBox console. His article was written with the implication that the hacker's intentions were to facilitate software piracy yet even a casual look at the work (though a more in-depth analysis of the console hacking mentality does help) would make it obvious that his efforts were in line with attempts to make the XBox console run arbitrary "homebrew" programs so that independant software writers could create their own (perfectly legal) projects that would run on the console. He also blasted the hacker's use of reverse engineering to "crack" the XBox system BIOS and criticized a cited court case where it was ruled legal for another software company to reverse engineer Sony's Playstation console (he then got the facts regarding the later settlement wrong).

I very much question Scott's technical expertise and I'd take any commentary he has to offer on subjects even remotely related to issues like this with a grain of salt.

[danelectro]

I very much question Scott's technical expertise and I'd take any commentary he has to offer on subjects even remotely related to issues like this with a grain of salt.

he's just writing outrage articles to drive traffic to his site. the fact that he posts the articles on fr, not interested readers, says something about their merit, don't you think?