said by major marco :

Basing that theory on Mitnick, I see. Mitnick's only crime was breaking into unsecured servers and humiliating the "computer security" employees of deep pocketed corporations. He actually did the Internet a favor by exposing primary weaknesses, but I would never put Mitnick in the same category as a spammer or ascribe the same sentence to them. They are in an entire class by themselves and completely useless to anyone. Spammers are the true nuisances who should be punished excessively, not people like Mitnick.