My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.

There is no patch for stupidity.

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems

I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game.