Re: Pentester convicted..

[Syv Ritch <syv () 911networks com>]

William Hancock wrote:

> a man has been convicted of hacking when he casually and
> helpfully reported a security vulnerability to the owners of a
> web site, in this case The University of Southern California.
> It reads like it was some sort of simple SQL injection and upon
> gleaning the information he reported it.

1. Sorry, but that's not what I heard. He also went into the NASA 
and other government agencies. Not only did he do "some 
pentesting" outside. He actually went in, and from inside did 
further "things". We don't know what he did inside, but he did 
enough to convince a judge to send him to the the States.

> If someone leaves their wallet in the park with no guard or
> protection, I pick it up and bring it back to the owner,
> the owner didn't want me to have it but I brought it back to
> him.  Why in the hell should I have to go to jail for returning
> it to him, why should I/we be punished for doing the right
> thing?

2. It's more like you find their wallet, see the credit card 
inside and use the credit card for buying stuff to test if the 
credit card works.

3. He is not convicted yet, he will be extradited to the US for 
trial.

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