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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
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The irony of this whole situation in the US whereby they want to bring long term prison sentences to friendly hackers is that by doing so they'll leave hundreds of companies blind to the fact they have security holes so that black hats can exploit them and not own up to it and thus not get caught.

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