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Talk About A Security Hole, Go To Jail?

Nu11.org writes "According to a SecurityFocus article, 'Federal prosecutors in California went too far when they put a man in prison for disclosing a website security hole to the people at risk from it.'" According to the article, "...by explaining how the vulnerability worked, and why customer data was at risk, prosecutors asserted, the security specialist 'impaired the integrity' of the affected network", citing the case of Bret McDanel and his former employer, Tornado Development, Inc. We've discussed the disclosure of software exploits recently.

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  1. *HIRE* a *QUALIFIED ELECTRICAN*. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jail is better than death.

  2. Tornado Development? by babyrat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So these guys are allowed to develop Tornadoes that cause massive destruction to trailer parks everywhere, but you are not allowed to tell people about insecure e-mail?

  3. Re:*HIRE* a *QUALIFIED PUERTO RICAN*. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wait. What?

  4. Morons talking about securitIE holes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The corpirate felonIEs has caused the sensex to rise again taking monIE to the almightIE juNIS.

    The cost of crudeness is now $50 a babIE. We need to spend more monIE on corpirate FraUDs to make yOUR suv's gas costs $0.70 a gall^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H $0.20 a litre.

    When babIEs are killed for NoT paIEng their $699 oxIEgen tacks something must be FraUDuleNT in corpirate USA. Please consult with yOUR creator about outsourcing the fate of the world to the JuNIS c64 cluster.

    RobbIE, i think your getting good with postblock(tm)ing the patendead Mark up FraUDs!

  5. Der Jesus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Niemand fickt mit dem Jesus.

    Niemand.

  6. Not freakin' funny! by No+Such+Agency · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Joking about prison rape is the same as joking about some woman being raped on the street. Period. That is all.

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  7. Re:Intereting indeed. by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Slow Down Cowboy!

    Slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.

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  8. Re:The sky is falling! by Cranx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Troll? Oh, did the thought police catch me not having a community-approved thought?

  9. Re:Easter philosophy is bullshit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dope-smoking hippie bows to your Buddha-nature.

    Shut the fuck up and grab a brain, asswipe.

  10. unprecedented evile has little to fear when it.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    comes to getting cooperation/scriptdead hypenosys from poorly trained ?pr? LIEforms hereabouts. although the vast majority has not the time or notion/attention required, to complain. that makes evile execrable slightly more difficult to eradicate.

    no problem. back on tasks. take heart, progress is being made. the walking dead are huddled/hiving in their bunkers.

    meanwhile, should you remain feigning disinterest, don't come crying to us when there's only won channel/os left.

    nothing has changed since the last phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated 'news' brIEf. if anything the situations are continuing to deteriorate. lots of good folks getting killed every day. you already know that. (see also: innocents)

    the posterbouys for grand larcenIE/deception would include any & all of the walking dead who peddle phonIE stock markup payper to millions of hardworking conservative folks, & then after stealing/spending/disappearing the real dough, pretend that nothing ever happened. sound familiar robbIE? these fauxking corepirate nazi larcens, want us to pretend along with them, whilst they continue to squander yOUR "investmeNTs", on their soul DOWt craving for excess/ego gratification. yuk

    no matter their ceaseless efforts to block the truth from you, the tasks (planet/population rescue) will be completed.

    the lights are coming up now.

    you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.

    as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing barrolls of crudeness, & learn that it's more than ok to use newclear power generated by natural (hydro, solar, etc...) methods. of course more information about not wasting anything/behaving less frivolously is bound to show up, here&there.

    cyphering how many babies it costs for a barroll of crudeness, we've decided to cut back, a lot, on wasteful things like giving monIE to felons, to help them destroy the planet/population.

    no matter. the #1 task is planet/population rescue. the lights are coming up. we're in crisis mode. you can help.

    the unlimited power (such as has never been seen before) is freely available to all, with the possible exception of the aforementioned walking dead.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet. seek others of non-aggressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit, moving you.

    pay no heed/monIE to the greed/fear based walking dead.

    each harmed innocent carries with it a bad toll. it will be repaid by you/us. the Godless felons will not be available to make reparations.

    pay attention. that's definitely affordable, plus you might develop skills which could prevent you from being misled any further by phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated misinformation.

    good work so far. there's still much to be done. see you there. tell 'em robbIE.

  11. Re:Intereting indeed. by Anonym0us+Cow+Herd · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slow Down Cowboy!

    I wonder if they actually intended for it to sound obscene?

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  12. http://12.245.90.218:8000 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    yr pal, Slugs