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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 2002-09-03
Ron
There is no illegality if a producer for NBC invited Lamo to enter their system. Lamo reasonably could have believed that the NBC producer had legal authority to allow him to enter the corporate computers without written approval from the CEO. Whether or not the producer actually did is an issue b...

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