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Slashdot | Adrian Lamo CharggdaW ith Hacking e@ Page 19 of 33 AGWo Gt HIG, RIO LEBEL UY UE BAe Gv ULag WY & KUNAIPEULy 2 ULL LeU. GU KOE only is this service uninvited and not approved, it gives access to private company resources and information, and uses the security holes to get in. Yes, I assume if security is the only dimension that your job entails, then this is all worth it. But to most people in charge, and arguably the general populace at large, this is an intrusion by illegal means. I personally value my private virtual space. If you get on my computer and get into my root account, it's an intrusion. Yeah, I will listen to how you did it, but for your troubles you'll never use my computer again. { Reply to This | Parent] » Wish Lhad mod points for once by jbarket (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @11:10AM o Re: Wish I had mod points for once by williewang (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @11:33AM © Lreply beneath your current threshold. Re:hacking... (Score:5, Insightful) by El Cubano (631386) on Saturday September 06, @11:35AM (#6887387) I can realy understand how someone could consider that they've doing a service for admins and all of that, but the point is that you are still breaking into a system and then turning around and saying, “hey, this is a security hole, you should fix it” is kind of like G. Guido coming down to your house, breaking in through a window with a golf-club and then saying, "Hey, I can break into your house, better listen to me or I'll do it again." I'm sure that Adrian has some noble goals, but fundamentally when a company decides that they don't like people creeping into their system and then presses charages against those who do, it's their right to feel that their security was violated. Good luck to him really, but there are other ways you can help people protect their network security than by breaking into them. I can see your point, but what he was doing was exposing flaws in the security of "public" places on the net. How is this any different than when the local news where I live broke into the nearby international airport's restricted area and did a report from there (this was about a year after 9/11) to show how lax security had become again. When the journalists do it, it is a public service. When a private citizen does it, it is a crime. WTF? Personally, if 1 am going to be utilizing the services of these sites, I want to know that they have good security (and not just because they say so). There is no way anyone can convince me that what he was doing was wrong. He was providing a public service, and if the public is too ungrateful to realize that, then it is really sad. It's not like he extorted money from the comapnies, or demanded some compensation, heck he even helped them fix the holes. It is just sickening that you can't even be a good Samaritan without someone wanting to take your head off. FBI(19-cv-1495)-1911 http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/06/1325221 shtml?tid=123 &tid=126 &tid=172&tid=99 9/8/2003