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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
Beelezubb
it does state that he sent a mass email...which implies one of two things

- he had list of all customers (effectively stealing(
- he used a backdoor to get the list of customers (effectively B&E)

whichever method he used, it's still on shaky ground. He should have posted it to Bugtraq...

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