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The Sad Tale of a Security Whistleblower
Mark Rasch, 2003-08-18

Federal prosecutors in California went too far when they put a man in prison for disclosing a website security hole to the people at risk from it.

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(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-18
Penguinisto (6 replies)
(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-18
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(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-18
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(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-18
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(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-19
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no good deed goes unpunished 2003-08-20
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no good deed goes unpunished 2003-08-25
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(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-18
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(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-19
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(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-19
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(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-19
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(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-19
Mark D. Rasch (1 replies)
(beelezubb!) - he had it coming. 2003-08-19
scamerone
Re: (shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-18
Anonymous (1 replies)
Re: (shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-19
Anonymous (1 replies)
he had it coming? I don't think so!. 2003-08-19
Jack.R.Abbit
(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-19
Anonymous (2 replies)
Analogies 2003-08-19
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Analogies 2003-08-19
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Analogies 2003-08-20
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Analogies 2003-08-26
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Analogies 2003-08-27
SCamerone
"Free Speech"? Puh-leeze. 2003-08-21
Penguinisto (1 replies)
"Free Speech"? Puh-leeze. 2003-08-21
Anonymous
(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-21
Penguinisto
(shrug) - he had it coming. 2003-08-26
Anonymous
Re: (shrug) - he had it coming. 2008-02-12
Anonymous
If I remember correctly, McDanel's also signed each of us up for all the rag magazines at the time, in which we received hundreds of emails per person. I understand that is denial of service, in which he wasn't tried for, but based on your article, you make him look like a saint.

Does anyone know what happen to that company, Tornado Development, and all it's employee's?

What ones doesn may seem right to him, and not effect anyone else, yet that company doesn't exist any longer.

The company at the time was a growing company still going through it's growing pains. Instead we had the door slammed on our fingers, at a time when the entire market was crashing all around us. The entire market had security issues, that's what they call virus, spread by hackers.

Just because you know something, it doesn't mean you have to act on it.

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