On Saturday I received an email (posted below), as I'm sure many others did, from Robert Lyttle. Who is Robert Lyttle? I had no idea, until I read the email that reminds us that he is in fact the "Pro-Napster Hacker" known as "Pimpshiz" that defaced websites in 2000 when Napster came under fire from the RIAA and Metallica. . . .. On Saturday I received an email (posted below), as I'm sure many others did, from Robert Lyttle. Who is Robert Lyttle? I had no idea, until I read the email that reminds us that he is in fact the "Pro-Napster Hacker" known as "Pimpshiz" that defaced websites in 2000 when Napster came under fire from the RIAA and Metallica. Now I remember. I shared some of his sentiments at the time, but I've never been an advocate of defacing and I felt that it only made Napster look worse to skeptics. Causing a media blitz about the "Pro-Napster Hacker" only made things worse for Napster as it associated malicious hackers with Napster. Not good. Thank you, Pimpshiz. To receive an email from this 18 year-old former defacer claiming that he now wants to sell his own commercial security software was more than ironic, and obviously more than I could swallow without expressing my thoughts. Let me begin by pointing out that when Lyttle began defacing sites under the nym of "Pimpshiz" he left his AOL email address (
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