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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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Re: Blaming the Good Samaritan 2008-09-30
Anonymous
If a "good samaritan" breaks into my home, he's charged with breaking-and-entering. He doesn't get charged with attempted murder just because breaking-and-entering can facilitate it. Similarly, it doesn't make sense to charge a "good samaritan" with anything more than can be proven on a computer n...

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