Lamo denies $300,000 database hack

Lamo denies $300,000 database hack
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-09-10

Days before going public with his penetration of the New York Times internal network last year, hacker Adrian Lamo created five new user accounts with the LexisNexis database service under the Times corporate account, which he used to rack up $300,000 in charges over the following three months, a federal complaint in New York charges.

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Moral question. 2003-09-12
Anonymous (2 replies)

In situations like these I like to go to a moral saying which has helped me many times.

"Don't do to your fellow what you would not want to be done to you."

There are two ways to look at the situation:

1) What Lamo did was a good thing and therefore NYT should be happy and the above moral sentence is kept.

2) What Lamo did was forcing his opinion on the NYT. Lamo beleives that keeping security is a good thing and to protect the NYT's customers he forced the NYT to action.

This 2 different views explain why there is such a difference in public's opinion.

In my opinion, what Lamo did was good in essence, but we can not allow ourselfs as a society to count on people's own morals - and since there are differences in opionion regarding what is right and what is wrong - we as a society desided to have govorning bodies. In this case, Lamo should have used his skills to go into politics and change the "system" to include regulations for enforcing internet security. If people as a society agree with his opinions - he will get his wish. Democracy is great - sometimes slow, but effective.

I wish Lamo good luck, he did a mistake and everyone deserves a second chance, especially people with high morals like Lamo. I do not beleive 3 years in prison would do any good to anyone.

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