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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 2002-04-17
Not-Anonymous
That analogy is flawed. It needs to be re-jigged so that the dude only notices the door to the vault has been left wide open after he scales the bank's fence. No one can eyeball a web-site and know that it has security vulnerabilties analogous to your example....

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