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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
M A Nelms
This is cut-and-dried. Regardless of intent, gaining unauthorized entry is illegal, period. Why you do it is not the issue. The issue is that you do it. And once in, no matter what use you make of the entry, you must still have broken the law to be there.

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