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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
Roger
IANAL but...

As I understand it, he can't be prosecuted for hacking NBC with the producer's go-ahead if he reasonably believed the producer had the authority to permit it. (It certainly doesn't matter that the permission wasn't a contract on paper.)

Of course, the producer may get into trouble w...

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