This is all well and good in theory, and yes would be nice. White Hats unless already high profile people in the IT industry hardly EVER get any regnition for their good will and nature. How many corperations with open non honeypot networks are likely to say "Oh yeah we could have been nuked, or our company secrets/user database stolen but this nice person told us about it. Most companies would be scrambeling to cover up the problem. Also a high percentage of actual hacks are unreported because the company doesn't want the PR disaster and the possible loss of clients/share value as a result.

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