Panel Debates Hacker Amnesty

The irony of this whole situation in the US whereby they want to bring long term prison sentences to friendly hackers is that by doing so they'll leave hundreds of companies blind to the fact they have security holes so that black hats can exploit them and not own up to it and thus not get caught.

By punishing the white hats they're simply making things easier for the black hats and weren't these laws designed to prevent just that ?

Just seems like yet more typical American goverment (il)logic.

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