A reformed computer hacker is winning big clients for open-source software and hardware products that protects a company’s network from intruders. He agreed to work in information warfare after he was arrested at age 17 for hacking into a government network. In return, he served no jail time. If you wouldn’t trust what a “hacker” says in court, would you trust software sold by an intruder? I wonder if this is the first time his customers will learn of his past? The intruder is posting word of this story on the front page of his company’s Web site.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/08/intruders-selling-security-software.html