Lamo denies $300,000 database hack

Lamo denies $300,000 database hack
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-09-10

Days before going public with his penetration of the New York Times internal network last year, hacker Adrian Lamo created five new user accounts with the LexisNexis database service under the Times corporate account, which he used to rack up $300,000 in charges over the following three months, a federal complaint in New York charges.

Moral question. 2003-09-12
Anonymous

In situations like these I like to go to a moral saying which has helped me many times.

"Don't do to your fellow what you would not want to be done to you."

There are two ways to look at the situation:

1) What Lamo did was a good thing and therefore NYT should be happy and the above moral sente...

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