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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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The Sad Tale of a Security Whistleblower 2003-08-18
Anonymous
Uh, did you guys read the same story I did? He did NOT break in through the hole that he discovered (and tried to get Tornado to fix). He sent Email warning the customers of the vulnerability.
That seems to be a pretty freaking reasonable facsimile of "responsible disclosure" to me: tell the compa...

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