09 January 2004

What this article fails to tell you is that Lamo would break into machines and then tell the companies the flaws in their security so they could fix them. How do think he got caught? The NYTimes would rather punish than fix.

The lesson here is that if you do this sort of thing don't try to do it in a "white hat" manner. Don't tell the company - just leave the security flaws in place so that everybody can exploit them.

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