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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. Interesting Tactic by zpengo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Competition: "Oh, there is? Really? How does it...? Oh, geez that's really bad. It does that too!? You're joking? Wow, we'll get on that right away." (Hangs up phone and calls police.)

    PHB: "Good work, Johnson! That'll show 'em!"

    Naked Woman Seeks Sex at Airport

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  2. He's a witch... by doorbot.com · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...burn him!

  3. What about MS? by multicsfan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't MS be a co-defendent as they provided the software used to 'hack' the site? Isn't there something illegal about making tools that are used for 'hacking'?