Lamo Bumped from NBC After Hacking Them

Lamo Bumped from NBC After Hacking Them
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-08-27

The helpful hacker demonstrates his techniques on camera for the NBC Nightly News, but lawyers kill the story when he cracks the broadcast network's own systems.

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Not Really Anonymous

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phil (1 replies)

Phil's and imbicile, and Lamo's a crim. 2002-08-29
Scott (5 replies)

Phil's and imbicile, and Lamo's a crim. bollocks 2002-08-29
Damien

Phil's and imbicile, and Lamo's a crim. NOT! 2002-08-29
Anonymous

Phil's and imbicile, and Lamo's a crim. 2002-08-29
Ostracus (1 replies)

Breaking and Entering? 2002-09-06
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Phil's and imbicile, and Lamo's a crim. 2002-08-29
Anonymous (1 replies)

Phil's and imbicile, and Lamo's a crim. 2002-09-06
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Phil's and imbicile, and Lamo's a crim. 2002-09-03
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Lamo is a script kiddy 2002-08-28
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Lamo is NOT a script kiddie 2002-08-29
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Lamo Bumped from NBC After Hacking Them 2002-08-28
Anonymous (2 replies)

I have tried before looking into these laws and to interpret their meaning, however, I do not have the uncanny ability to interpret legal jargon very well and have only a basic understanding of the laws.

This article then arouses my curiosity about what is considered "law breaking" activity. Here is what I don't understand... NBC askes him to attempt to break into their network (a test of their network security) which he does. But after he does this, NBC doesn't want to do anything with it because of some "law breaking" activity. How is this "law breaking"? Are all security firms such as @Stake and Foundstone breaking the law too???

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