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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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so next time i mistype an url... 2002-04-07
johnny
We are not talking about mis-typing anything ... unless you consider actively scanning for the latest IIS vulnerability to find machines without patches, then employing a specifically written tool to take control of the server, then deploying your own code on the site...as valid.

Look, if you use...

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