[tptacek]

Nobody who does software security professionally would suggest Dancho is a "script kid". Your first tip-off might have been the article, where you'd learn that his disappearance was featured in the ZDNet security blog, where he is a contributor.

[fooandbarify]

I don't do software security professionally, or have any other way of validating Dancho's legitimacy. It's not that I don't trust ZDNet - I was simply ceding the possibility that the parent was right on that point since I had no "proof" to the contrary. I apologize if it came across as me lending credence to the idea that Dancho may be a hack, I meant it in the sense that I was unable to positively confirm his reputation in the field (since I am not in it) but I should have been more clear :)