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Slashdot | Adrian Lamo Chasey Hacking r ) Page 16 of 33 [ Reply to This | Parent ] « . o Re:Great Excuse by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @01:03PM = Re:Great Excuse by MrHanky (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @01:35PM = Re:Great Excuse by jjhlk (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @02:46PM « Also by mindstrm (Score: 1) Saturday September 06, @02:47PM e Hey, you left your keys in the door by cpopin (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @12:062M « Re:Great Excuse by jeffasselin (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @12:25PM. « Re:Gr by ScooterBill (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @12:41PM September 06, @12:48PM (#6887775 (hitp:/Aww.lexnm.umontreal.ca/} The home invasion analogy is a very bad one. A home is by its very nature badly protected (you don't spend millions securing it, do you?) but it is also a sanctuary, a place where a break-in results in a certain emotional stigma. A better analogy would be this one: Suppose that somebody is waiting in an airport's lobby. He has not gone through the security checks yet. While waiting, he notices airport personnel going through what seems to be an unlocked employee-only door. A thought flashes in his mind: "This doesn't seem very secure. J thought airports were supposed to be secure.” So he goes to the door and lo and behold, it is unlocked! He goes through it and find a bunch or corridors and doors. Naturally curious and a little adventurous, our guy wonders how far he can go. He goes forward and manages to get to the departure area WITHOUT going through security, He feels a little proud of having easily broken a system on which governements and airlines has spent millions. Being a good citizen, our guy then goes to the security counter and shows his finding to the cop. But suddenly, the cop puts cuffs on him and charges him with trespassing and attempting to bypass security in an airport. Of course, the proper action would have been for the guy to go to security as soon as the unlocked door was found. Adrian Lamo should have stopped his investigation at the misconfigured proxy. However, is it reasonable to charge somebody with a federal crime for having gone a little further in testing the security of a system? Whether is was an airport or NYT's intranet. I don't think so. The FBI can claim that they don't know whether the guy smuggled dope during his attempt and the NYT can claim that they'll have to check every system for backdoors but I believe it's mostly bad faith from people lashing out because they felt humiliated. Get a grip... fix your stuff and move on. Desiroying the life of somebody who tried to help you is just stupid and cruel. I Renlv to This | Parent 1 FBI(19-cv-1495)-1908 hitp://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/06/1325221 shtml?tid=123 &tid=126&ctid=1 728tid=99 9/8/2003