Search: Home Bugtraq Vulnerabilities Mailing Lists Jobs Tools Beta Programs
Beware the Kindness of Strangers: The Case Against Good Samaritan Hackers
Richard Forno, 2002-03-28

The Good Samaritan defence, invoked by hackers like Adrian Lamo, can too easily be distorted by those with less altruistic intentions.

Submit Comment Mode:
Name:
Subject:
Message:
 
  Enter the characters that appear above
 
Beware the Kindness of Strangers: The Case Against Good Samaritan Hackers 2002-03-29
Anonymous
Your analogy is flawed. You don't just "walk by" a network and see the door is open--you have jiggle the doorknob.

To be a better analogy, the person in your scenario would have to walk by the CLOSED (but not locked) door *and see if they could enter*. If they then entered, outside of normal bu...

[ more ]  




 

Privacy Statement
Copyright 2009, SecurityFocus