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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
Um, if the NBC reporter asked him to hack NBC, how is he breaking the law? It would be reasonable for him to assume at that point that since he had been asked to hack NBC's system by a representative of NBC that his activity was perfectly legal.

If the reporter didn't have the authority to ask h...

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