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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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ah - that should've been included in the article, then... 2003-08-21
Penguinisto
I had assumed that he either swiped the customer list (ie stolen the key to the house in my analogy) or had exploited the vulnerability itself to ship the mails.

Given this information, IMHO he still screwed up, big-time - at the least for spamming (or possibly harrassment), at the most for outri...

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