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Lamo Bumped from NBC After Hacking Them
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-08-27

The helpful hacker demonstrates his techniques on camera for the NBC Nightly News, but lawyers kill the story when he cracks the broadcast network's own systems.

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Lamo Bumped from NBC After Hacking Them 2002-08-28
Anonymous
It would be interesting to know whether this producer had authority to invite people into the site and how Lamo knew this was a genuine NBC producer.

Rather than comment on "how easy" hacking I would think of how poorly the site was secured. Maybe that embarassed the lawyers....

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