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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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no good deed goes unpunished 2003-08-20
Anton Sherwood
He didn't send to a mass alias: he staggered the message over several days, precisely to *avoid* causing a DoS. To do that, he needed a list of subscribers. We don't know how he got that, but evidently neither the Gummint nor Tornado saw fit to prosecute him for stealing it!...

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