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Slashdot | Adrian Lamo Charegyith Hacking @ Page 10 of 33 The above is, unforunately, the analog to what's happening in the electronic world. I'm not saying that Lamos and other selfappointed white hat hackers are RIGHT in what they do (I believe they aren't), but even if the messenger isn't welcome, you don't shoot him or blame hime for all the problems he reports. The main reason why you shouldn't do that isn't just because it’s a petty thing to do, but because you HURT yourself and others in the long run. See, if I were a hacker operating like Lamos, and saw companies doing that, instead of alerting the companies and risking facing their and the paranoid law makers full wrath, I would stop alerting the companies about their flaws -- instead, I would anonymously alert the PUBLIC. Seen from the viewpoint of a company, what's better about that? Yet, that's what they're pushing hackers into. The companies might argue that they would want people to stop rattling doors in the first place, and that’s a valid argument. However, it's not going to happen until you have exterminated every potential criminal and curious kid on the planet. In a Utopia, you don't even need a door lock, because no-one would ever walk through the door without a right to do so. However, companies can't argue that as a defense -~ not installing a lock would be seen as gross negligence, because it's expected that criminals and curious people will trespass unless minima: safety measures are taken. That's how our society is. Charging Lamos is a signal, all right. Unfortunately the signal isn’t "don't test our security uninvited", but "once you've tested our security uninvited, don't tell us -- stay anonymous and tell it to everyone else". Regards, *Art { Reply to This | Parent ] « Re:Great Excuse by Penguin's Advocate (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @04:30PM » Re:Great Excuse by Shdwdrgn (Score:1) Sunday September 07, @01:50PM. «= Re:Great Excuse by iserlohn (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @01:172M = Re: the car anacogy by King TI (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @01:38PM | FBI(19-cv-1495)-1902 | http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/06/1325221 shtml?tid=123 &tid=126&tid=1 72&tid=99 9/8/2003