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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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Of course he should be tried - Enough analogies! 2003-09-17
Anonymous
"Actually there are a great many similarities"

Like the previous poster said, this analogy is way too emotionally loaded. Who do you think would be more upset, the person who wakes in the morning to find an intruder has been in their house, looking though their private belongings, or a company wh...

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