Mike Howell:
Ok listen to me closely
We are in the process of identifying and outting members of your group
Reputations and lives will be destroyed
Closeted Furries will be presented to the world for the degenerate perverts they are
You cannot hide
Your means are miniscule compared to mine. You now can either turn yourself in or you can cooperate
Oh I so hope that reputations will be destroyed…
Lol. The gay furry Cybersecurity activist’s reputations are already established.
We like them.
I appreciate what they’re doing, and hope they keep a strong eye on where their ethical boundaries are, and keep out of anything too hot for their opsec to handle.
But Mike Howell needs to watch Ocean’s 11.
“I know all the guys you would send after me. They like me more than they like you!”
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doubt the furries will care much about being outed as furries, but cybercrime is a big no-no when it comes to actual employment
Absolutely.
I would prefer our gay furry hackers keep things fully legal, for their own sakes.
That said, Mike needs help from folks like me to catch these kids, and as long as they’re sticking to ethical hacking, I’m not motivated.
Also, I don’t like Mike.
His claim that he actually has my kind of help, actually on his side, is… overconfident, I think.
I can’t guarantee that, though, so I’m glad to hear our ethical hackers have decided to lay low.
In any case, everyone has a slightly different perspective on what counts as ethical, so I hope they’ll stick to legal as much as their conscience will allow, from here out.
but cybercrime is a big no-no when it comes to actual employment.
Depends on what field you’re in. There are entire sectors of tech that seek out skilled hackers for things like pen testing.
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Again, it depends. Some of the most notorious hackers of all time literally had their prison sentences commuted so that they can work for the NSA (or US Gov’t in some capacity).
They have a good point though. Pen testing is a vanishingly small corner of our field, and I haven’t seen anyone with a past conviction get hired for those roles, in a long time.
I’ve seen too many hacker kids think their hacker reputation is going to get them out of trouble, and it didn’t.
I’ll defer to you on this as I’m by no means an expert. I suppose I thought there was more demand for young people who have that specific skillset than there actually is.
Yeah. The demand for red team skills is complicated.
There’s plenty of work to do. But there’s a lot of anxiety, and in some cases laws, that make hiring managers cautious.
When a team member is going to sometimes physically break into a data center, things are much simpler if they have an unimpeachable reputation.
And that, itself, is unfair, since everyone’s definition of “unimpeachable reputation” is going to be a bit different. I’m inclined to factor in motives, but not everyone can.
So it’s not the end of the world for a young hacker with a conviction, but they definitely have a more difficult time.
From there the messages said to have been sent from Howell become increasingly dark, lecturing the crew on beastiality and how it’s a “weird sin,” calling them perverts," and then telling vio “you won’t be able to wear a furry tiger costume when you’re getting pounded in the ass in the federal prison I put you in next year.”
Overall, not a good look for an organization touting Christian value
Conservatives and especially conservative Christians have some very particular obsessions.
Consequences will never be the same
Lol what a loser. Trying so hard to sound badass.
A bonus meme for all my homies who comment:
Given the slant of the article, it really feels like The Register missed an opportunity for a spicier headline like “Mike Howell, Heritage Foundation executive, reportedly discloses gay furry prison sex fantasies”
Or “Mike Howell destroyed by Gay Furries”
