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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.

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so next time i mistype an url... 2002-03-30
Anonymous
Oh please. Adrian Lamo doesn't "mistype" url's. He uses proxy hunter to actively go looking for misconfigured proxy servers. There is a huge difference in actively looking for ways in, or finding something accidentally, whether your intent is harmless or not.

And in reality, when you mistype a...

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