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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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Posting to BugTraq does not get you off the hook... 2003-08-26
Anonymous
From the government's perspective, posting to BugTraq has the same effect as sending the email to the users. That effect is notifying would-be script-kiddies of the vulnerability, thus "impairing the integrity" of the network. Since this effect is the "probable" outcome of either action, it is def...

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