>You are a criminal (or ex-criminal) then. That's right: he was a criminal, and he never claimed he wasn't. He has (I assume) served his time, and so paid his debt to society. >It is my opinion that anybody who would hire a computer criminal to work >on computer security deserves to lose all of their information assets - >and probably will. It's about as smart as hiring a convicted child sex >offender to run a daycare center. There's no comparing someone who rapes little children to somebody who hacks... I'm not saying the latter isn't illegal, just much less worse. I wouldn't be surprised if jail reforms a hacker. It can't be too much fun being in jail, and having experienced it, I'm sure alot of hackers wouldn't want to go back. >Please let us know the name of the company when you start it so we can >tell all of our clients to avoid it. That's not even worth a comment... If you don't like him, fine, but don't try and ruin his life because of something which has already paid for. (I don't figure you meant that seriously, but still...)