Weighing in on Lamo

From: Deb (dcote@techtarget.com)
Date: 01/23/02 

From: dcote@techtarget.com (Deb)
Date: 23 Jan 2002 10:14:52 -0800

Hello all,

We asked our users at searchWebManagement to let us know what they
thought about hacker Adrian Lamo. The responses ran the gamut from:

"It's understandable that people feel vulnerable, but I think that
they should simply be grateful that Lamo hasn't done any damage to
their systems. Lamo should open a consulting firm if he plans on
continuing his behavior. It's not something they should prosecute him
for, but that doesn't mean it's ethical either."

"If I go around breaking into houses and businesses just to show them
how easy it can be done, would I be above the law? If I took advantage
of the POTS last mile (local loop) old copper infrastructure and wire
tapped people or business telephones, just because I could, and to
show how easy it is to do, would I be above the law? It is not a gray
area. If you break into someone's facilities without permission,
routers, switches, servers, where you don't have permission to be, you
have committed a crime."

You can check out the rest of the responses here:
http://searchwebmanagement.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid27_gci790410,00.html

Let me know what you think. Since this is a forum for security, I'm
interested in knowing your opinion. Check out our Web security forum
if you want and post it there.

http://searchwebmanagement.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?230@231.bt3FaiiEe7x^0@.ee84438!viewtype=&skip=&expand=

Hope all is well,

Deb Cote
Associate Site Editor
searchWebManagement.com

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