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Space Rogue

Date Published: March 12, 2000
Date Conducted: March 11, 2000
Interview Conducted By: WHiTe VaMPiRe
Interview Conducted With: Space Rogue

Space Rogue is the editor of the Hacker News Network, a member of L0pht Heavy Industries (Now @Stake) -- he also previously maintained the Whacked Mac Archives, one of the largest Macintosh hacking-related sites on the Internet.

Questions are colored and Space Rogue's answers are indented.
How did you first get involved with computing?
A door to door Osborne Salesperson came to my house. Showed us an Osborne One. While our family could not afford it $2,000+ that is where I started. I convinced him to come back several times on the premise of maybe we will buy it. In those few hours I learned a lot.
What would you consider your first computer?
Commodore 64.
What projects were you involved with before the L0pht?
Nothing anyone would know about.
How did you get involved with the L0pht?
I knew most of the other founders for years via local bulletin board systems.
What are your feelings on the merger of the L0pht and @Stake?
A good thing in general, it allows time and resources to be devoted to important projects that would never have been possible before.
What initially brought you to create the Hacker News Network?
I was sharing URLs with a small group of people and decided that it would be better to put them on the web and share them with a larger audiance.
Many have noticed that after the L0pht / @Stake merger the commercial content was removed from HNN. How else will the merger effect HNN?
@Stake is commited to vendor neutrality which is why all advertisements where removed. You will also notice the removal of the HNN Store and no more T-shirt sales. In the future you can expect even more changes including even the name of the site as it gets integrated into the @Stake corporate web presence.
What do you have planned for HNN's future?
HNN's future is pretty much out of my hands at the moment.
Do you have any comments on the medias interpretation of "hackers," "crackers," and the related communities?
This is an ongoing battle sometimes I think we are winning, and other times I think we have failed miserably. There are some journalists out there who actually 'get it' but many many others need to be educated.
Do you think the media has at all improved with its coverage of 'hacking' related topics in the past few years?
Well they have given it more coverage, not sure if that qualifies as an improvement though. This is especially evident during fast moving critical stories such as the recent DDoS attacks. Some news outlets got it right but many more got it wrong.
How do you think they could improve their coverage and cut down the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt)?
Education. Unfortunately many reporters have little to no understanding of technology.
Why was the name of Project BootyCall changed to TBA?
No comment.
What is your opinion on Web site defacements?
Most are childish and serve no purpose. You would think that people who are taking such an immense risk of going to jail would have something better to say that 'Props to my peeps.'


The Hacker News Network is accessible at http://www.hackernews.com/. Space Rogue can be contacted via spacerog@l0pht.com.