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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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The question is simple, but the answer may be complicated, and becoming more so. 2002-04-01
Anonymous
Sure, what Lamo does is illegal. So are lots of other things. Spam is illegal, to varying degrees in different locales. Last month we witnessed the spectacle of criminal charges (later dropped) against the operator of a site that searches for open mail relays, because his test program happened to...

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