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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 2002-04-02
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Your example is faulty...try this one.

The person walks by the bank, notices that the door is locked, but the lock is cheap and easy to defeat. The person takes out his trusty set of breaking and entering tools and gains entrance to the bank. When inside, he notices that the vault is also easy ...

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