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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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The first four letters of analogy. . . .whaaaat? 2002-04-17
Anonymous
> But that doesn't give someone carte blanche to go banging
> around/against a company's networks to try and find a way in
> for kicks and grins, either.

I agree. I worry, though, that the current trend in corporate security is to put the money into lobbying instead of hardening systems. In ...

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