Ken Williams and his character (Score 1)

I've known Ken Williams for about three years now,
ever since he came to NCSU and zephyred me about
how to use the Sparc4s we had at the time. I
gave some of my typical LabOp(tm) Brand Advice
and watched him eat it up. He was in the lab for
days. He slept there, he ate there. We split
pizzas and good conversation. (He still owes me
lunch for admitting PERL is better than Java)

Eventually, all his hard work paid off and he
picked up on network security and got packet storm
up and running. Although I never contributed, I
was a long time listener.

I say I know him pretty well. As well as anyone
else around at NCSU. We're all pretty damn
unsatisfied that he's been treated this way,
especially since he gave us knowledge and he
was a campus character to boot.

Ken is not a bad person, he's not someone who
is likely to hurt anyone. He's got his opinions, he voices him, and doesn't expect you to change
yours for his. All he ever cared about, really,
was the information.

He's the Real American Cracker.

He knows his stuff, and doesn't pretend to know
what he doesn't. He'll talk your ear off about
networks and share a cigarette over some talk
about how weak the System is. He's just a good guy, that's all, and I'd say that in any forum or institution, International or Domestic.

That's all I have to say about Ken.

Now, the others....

Harvard was trying to protect itself by purging Ken from its records. Destroying his site was just that. Not letting him have the backups was the line. Hopefully, in the future, they'll be less like little bastards and more like men.

JP. Shove him. Don't pay him any respect. In my eyes, AntiOnline has been a pox on the security community for too long....

Peace,
BFD