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'T0rn' Arrest Alarms White Hats, Advocates
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-09-24

A raid on the alleged author of a well-known hacker toolkit is raising eyebrows among electronic civil libertarians, and putting security researchers on guard.

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'T0rn' Arrest Alarms White Hats, Advocates 2002-09-27
Anonymous
As a couple of people have already said, the key to this is "intent". To get a successful prosecution, they would have to prove beyond doubt that the intent was malicious and I can't see that this will be easy (even given the nature of the "software").

I would be suprised if this is the sole rea...

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