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New York Times Internal Network Hacked
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-02-26

How open proxies and default passwords led to Adrian Lamo padding his rolodex with information on 3,000 op-ed writers, from William F. Buckley Jr. to Jimmy Carter.

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New York Times Internal Network Hacked 2002-03-03
Disgusted
Accessing systems without permission?

Abusing thousands of individuals' privacy rights?

Creating accounts on other people's systems?

Accessing commercially sensitive information?

Visiting victims after the fact and signing NDAs?

Sounds to me like this hero is into extortion.

Lock him up.

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