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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.

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Moral question. 2003-09-12
Anonymous
You mean that if information exists only in electronic - virtual - form it doesn't have similar value than the same information in physical world?

Getting the same information at the physical world would have required to do crimes as well, and since the owner of the information would have liked to ...

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