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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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Where to draw the line 2008-09-29
Daniel Thomas
Very interesting, but as you point out, where do you draw the line? What is as part of my good intentioned efforts, I accidentally trigger a denial of service? Yes my intentions where good but I still caused damage to the organisation.

If there was a law to allow 'good samaritan' hacking it ...

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