Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial

Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial
Robert Lemos, 2008-09-29

Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial 2008-09-29
triznut (1 replies)

He could of saved himself all this trouble if he would of been a little smarter about the situation and just been ethical....

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Re: Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial 2008-10-03
Anonymous (1 replies)

Therein lies the conundrum. How would the student know the exploits exist without exploiting them? Rarely can you finger for an exploit, unless you have a test system. You're judging that the kid was unethical. Clearly the kid was morally driven. While he could have approached the situation differne...

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Re: Re: Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial 2008-10-07
triznut

He may of been driven by good morals, but his ethics stink! That is why he is being punished. Once he found out the exploit(s) existed, he should of stopped there, and then approach the school for further pen-testing. Whitehats have to deal with the fact that they might be told NO. Better than going...

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Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial 2008-09-30
Anonymous

Wikileaks has a copy of the letter ordering him to lie:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Cartleton_University_Campuscard_fiasco_diciplinary_decision_2008

And here's a link to the university itself admitting to receiving the report (August 29th):

http://www2.carleton.ca/newsroom/news-releases/update-on...

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Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial 2008-10-01
Oofus Funnybutt III (1 replies)

Stupid wanna-be whitehat. I hope he gets sentenced to death.

Let this be a lesson to all: shut up and break into your schools computer to steal tests and change grades like every other hacker...

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Re: Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial 2008-10-03
Anonymous (1 replies)

that's exaclty what the legal system is telling to all whitehats : stop being good, become a blackhat, and at least, you'd be sued for something worth it....

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Re: Re: Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial 2008-10-07
Anonymous (1 replies)

The school have to punish the the white hat because, if they wouldn't every black hat wouldn't need to cover their tracks

they crack the school do what ever they do and then say

oh here is a problem (now after i have done what i want) you can close it, with out punishing me

for doing it ...

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Re: Re: Re: Hack-and-tell student quits school, awaits trial 2008-10-08
Anonymous

What you just said makes no sense. If you were a black hat then you wouldn't want anyone to close anything as it would never benefit you in any way.

This case shows how an institution simply doesn't know how to handle its students. A university has the responsibility of guiding its students and t...

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