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Panel Debates Hacker Amnesty
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-03-25

Should hack-and-tell intruders who warn companies about security holes do time with hardened criminals? Security experts probe the ethics of hacking.

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Panel Debates Hacker Amnesty 2002-03-27
FlorX
Say a system is vulnerable.

A "bad" hacker stumbles upon it, hacks it an damages/abuses/sells important information of the server.

Then the company will have to pay a large amount of money to recover what was lost without tracing back the hacker (if he was a good one).

else

A "good" hacker...

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