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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
Matthew Z.
The flaw in your argument is that many of the hackers, including Lamo, walked in, rifled through the desk drawers, read confidential documents, took some home and THEN called the authorities.

I support the Look, Don't Touch' approach, but most of these guys are doing a hell of a lot of touching....

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