Your right. the journalist should be held accountable for asking someone to do something clearly illegal just for the sake of filming it. but what will most likely happen is that Lamo will be labeled a terrorist and a threat to the free world under the Patriot Bill (Act?) that Bush signed last year, sentenced to 5 years in jail before a trial (sound familiar?) and then put on probation when the mainstream media gets tired of talking about him. oh... and about the whole script kiddie thing i was reading about above earlier... unless u know exactly what programs he ran, or if they were simply web based applications, u can't really call him a script kiddie. just a far off example here... but there are web based finger commands available. if he used that to "attack" a system, does that make him a script kiddie, or simply someone taking advantage of resources available to him? what about password crackers? is someone who uses a password cracker a script kiddie? The word should be defined better before it can be used so freely.

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