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Report Security Problems, Face The Consequences

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the maybe-he-should-just-edit-the-page dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Doing a good deed has caused one man a lot of trouble in the past year. Brian K. West, a tech support junky in a SE. Oklahoman ISP is now facing felony charges due to alerting his competition about a serious security flaw in their systems. The full story can be found at LinuxFreak.org ... I find this rather disturbing that our federal government would do such a thing to someone.." The details of the story lead to some head-scratching.

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  1. That's fucked... by RaeF · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Our government licks sweaty dog balls...

  2. Re:Per the fbi afidavit by Skapare · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And do you think the incompetent admins that run the site would have believed someone who just said the site was insecure, but didn't back it up with facts?

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    now we need to go OSS in diesel cars