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Breach case could curtail Web flaw finders
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-04-26

Security researchers and legal experts have voiced concern this week over the prosecution of an information-technology professional for computer intrusion after he allegedly breached a university's online application system while researching a flaw without the school's permission.

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In other words, shoot the messenger 2006-04-26
Anonymous
So he finds that USC has deployed vulnerable web code, and they take their site down to fix it, and he is responsible for the downtime of the website?

Let's see, we wouldn't want to blame the web programmer for writing insecure code. Or the USC Information Security Team for allowing the code to ...

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