Report Security Problems, Face The Consequences

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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Who-hoo! Land of the Free!

[mindstrm]

This, from the only country that forces you to go through customs & Immigration even to handle a connecting flight.
From one of the few remaining countries with a death penalty.
From a country that still taxes it's people even if they reside in a foreign country (Only a few countries still do this; one being Libya)

God help us.

A Deal with the Devil

[Macaw2000]

While this man's plight is quite disturbing, I find it funny that Slashdot regularily buddies up to the U.S. Government when they are attacking a company they don't like (read: Microsoft) but then they don't like it when the government attacks one of their own.

This is exactly the kind of thing that happens when a government is not kept in check. As a government grows so does their power.

Re:Wonder if I could be prosecuted

[Syberghost]

Two months ago, my caller ID reported a call from a number. I was bored, so I checked it out and it looked like a home number. On a hunch, I looked him up in the cross-reference directory and went to his house.

He'd left his door unlocked, and I was looking at his living room. I thought about leaving a note on his TV telling him he left his door unlocked and his house was open to the world.

Thank God I wised up...He could have had me prosecuted!!!! God I'm so starting to hate the government.