Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security

Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-06-15

Jeremiah Grossman has long stopped looking for vulnerabilities in specific Web sites, and even if he suspects a site to have a critical flaw that could be compromised by an attacker, he's decided to keep quiet.

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Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security 2007-06-16
Anonymous

I see two main problems with this. First, what keeps a malicious attacker from claiming to be a researcher when caught? Second, the skills of security researchers varies greatly. While Jeremiah might be careful, some other idiot might cause a lot of problems for admins. ...

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Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security 2007-06-17
Ari Takanen (2 replies)

Hacking into any live system, especially if that attack goes through other third party networks, is and should be illegal, whether it is done for profit or non-profit research. Publicity and profit should not be the motivation to go and do "research" on a widely used web-site. If your motivation is ...

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Re: Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security 2007-06-21
Anonymous

I hope you're being sarcastic with this reponse. If not, you are incredibly naive. Who in their right mind is going to let a stranger practice hacking into their public, production website to find vulnerabilities? Get real....

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Re: Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security 2007-07-13
Anonymous

Let's do an analogy with insurance companies... Leave your house with the door open, get robbed, and then try to claim the money and convince them that it was not your fault, that you didn't do anything wrong and blame the burglar for the situation.

You have to _at least try_ to secure your serve...

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Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security 2007-08-22
Ben Wright, hack-igations.com

The Report could do well to explore the topic of advance notice/explanation. Before a security professional undertakes an aggressive probe or action, he can generally affect its legality by giving advance notice of what he plans to do and what his justifications are....

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