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Slashdot | Adrian Lamo og Hacking @ Page 22 of 33 « Re:Sheesh! by WindowLicker916 (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @11:51AM o Re:Sheesh! by joto (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @12:14PM « Re:Sheesh! by serviscope_minor (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @12:01PM How lame... (Score:4, Funny) (http://woww.eng. fsu.edu/~jabbott) ...the FBI has filed charges against [Lamo], and currently has his parents’ house staked out. Weil that's just... lame-o! [ducks for cover] { Reply to This } « another scapegoat by segment (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @10:59AM e 1 reply beneath your current threshold. « He did nothing wront, because... by Jacer (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @11:00AM « Common Sense!! by drakman (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @11:02AM. « Re:Common Sense!! by serviscope_minor (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @12:06PM 1reply beneath your current threshold. What was he thinking? (Score:5, Insightful) by tarranp (676762) on Saturday September 06, @11:04AM (#6887208) If you break into someone's house, telling him after the fact how yo got in does not automatically pardon you from the crime... Had Adrian simply notified the New York Times in a timely manner about the open. proxy servers, he would have been fine and probably accomplished his mission. Instead, he took his time cracking the system, widening the holes so to speak, and then went to a reporter(!), of all people. There is nothing inherently wrong with his desire to improve security, There is nothing wrong with him looking around the public spaces on the intemet for chinks. What was wrong was that he failed to tell the people maintaining the chinks directly about them, widened them until he got at valuable data, didn't tell the affected people about the data he had received, but then went to a third party and told them about the wanging big hole he had made. I'm sure he views himself as a knight in shining armor, but in this matter he behaved like a publicity-seeking self-promoter. Yes, shame on the NYT for misconfiguring their systems, but even more shame on Adrian for doing something so illegal and counterproductive. It does not matter if a person thinks he's a good guy, he still does not have carte hlancha ta da whatever he urichas http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/06/1325221 shtml?tid=123 &tid=126 &tid=1 72&tid=99 FBI(19-cv-1495)-1914 9/8/2003