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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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You're opening yourself up to prosecution if you fess up. 2002-04-17
Anonymous
> The responsible netizen can try to get the contact
> information of someone who can close that hole, and let them
> know about it.

In today's world, isn't that opening yourself up to prosecution? The guy who runs ORBZ got sued just for sending mail to an email server that turned out to be un...

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