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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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Beware the Kindness of Strangers: The Case Against Good Samaritan Hackers 2002-04-01
William W. Bishop
While maintaining a presence in the hacking community(it is very useful in fact for preventing break-ins) is necessary to keep up with what script kiddies are doing these days...there is no excuse for testing the integrity of someone else's systems. Testing your own home computer/network is fine, an...

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