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Blaming the Good Samaritan
Houston Carr, 2008-09-26

In the early 90's, I attended an academic conference in Hawaii. At one presentation, a colleague from the University of California at Berkeley whom I'll refer to as "the supervisor," told a story of young hackers, who he referred to as the Urchins.

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For someone who missed the point of the discussion, you sure came up with a great analogy!

The son can legally break into his father's home, provided he lives there. He normally has access to the house. What if it was not the son but a helpful neighbor? Someone who doesn't have a key, but goes around the neighborhood trying to pick locks for the purpose of making sure that everyone's houses are safe. He does this out of "duty of care" - because burglaries in the neighborhood will lower his own house's value.

Wow, your straw man sure is in pieces!

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