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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 2002-08-29
Anonymous
I believe the issue in this case was that the jounalist ASKED the guy to see if he could hack NBC. And that would, I assume, be a very big no-no.

A media organisation can't legally be seen to be encouraging unlawful behaviour, and in this instance, the lawyers were probably spot on....

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