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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. 2003-08-19
Mark D. Rasch
The list of names was simlply userids comprised of numbers, e.g., tornado1, tornado2.. etc.. he knew this from having previously worked there, so all he needed to do was find out how MANY users there were... He apparently never broke into any Tornado computers.

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