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Blaming the Good Samaritan
Houston Carr, 2008-09-26

In the early 90's, I attended an academic conference in Hawaii. At one presentation, a colleague from the University of California at Berkeley whom I'll refer to as "the supervisor," told a story of young hackers, who he referred to as the Urchins.

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Blaming the Good Samaritan 2008-09-27
Anonymous
While I definitely agree that there needs to be a way to protect hackers who have nothing but good intentions, opponents to this stance could argue that a hacker breaking into a system with intentions to alert administrators of vulnerabilities could be compared to a person breaking into someone's ho...

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