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Slashdot | Adrian Lamo Chore Hacking @ Page 21 of 33 cee etna waning SEN TP AR ener Means MEUM traauarmnnne Ertane Vine HhAny AA VaAsAtOURae WoreevernnAwe sae wenwer to get some more. . Whilst I don't approve of hacking per-se, I'd have to say that here, this is very little more than exposing a badly designed web site. Imagine that you go to you Gas company's online web site, look at the URL and see your account number in it. You think to yourself, I wonder what would happen if I changed one of the digits. You do and fo and behold up pops all the information to another customer. Now you can go for your 15 minutes of fame and ring up SecurityFocus or you can have a quiet word with the Webmaster of the Gas company - either way, you are not a hacker. [ Reply.to This ] « He accessed an internal network by mindstrm (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @11:04AM Re:He accessed an internal network (Score:5, Insightful) by practicalista (686436) on Saturday September 06, @11:16AM #6887277) The law make distinctions between trespass, breaking and entry, armed robbery and so on. . The guy who wanders around your house is a trespasser not an armed robber. It seems here that a better analogy would be : A guy walks in to your unlocked house, boasts about it and you insist that he prosecuted for the worst possible crime he *may* have committed, not the crime he did commit (to walk through an unlocked door). [ Reply to This | Parent ] = Re:He accessed an internal network by catenos (Score:3) Saturday September 06, @08:37PM = Re:He accessed_an internal network by MegaFur (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @11:28PM = Lreply beneath your current threshold. o Re:He accessed an internal network by Uerige (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @02:48PM = lyeply beneath your current threshold. © 2 replies beneath your current threshold. e Re:This seems unfair by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @11:12AM « Re:This seems unfair by davesag (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @07:29PM © 2 replies beneath your current threshold, « It's about time. by FreeLinux (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @10:58AM « Sheesh! by joto (Score:3) Saturday September 06, @10:58AM FBI(19-cv-1495)-1913 http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/06/1325221 shtml ?tid=123 &tid=126&tid=l 72&tid=99 9/8/2003