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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 2002-04-03
Anonymous
All,
I can't agree. I am a Security Engineer for an Atlanta-based security firm, and have done many, many pen. tests, audits, and network security runs. I have to say that if I went about and did some 'good samaritan hacking' on my own, I'd consider myself on the wrong side of the law. The anal...

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