IP: Good cyber-Samaritan arrested for "unauthorized access"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 16:31:23 -0600
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat org>
>
> According to an article at
>
> http://www.linuxfreak.org/post.php/08/17/2001/134.html
>
> a tech support employee at an ISP has been charged with a felony after 
> informing a local newspaper that its Web site was insecure and open to 
> tampering and defacement. From the account at the URL above, it appears 
> that the employee, one Brian K. West, did not break the law by obtaining 
> unauthorized access to the server; he merely pointed out that all accesses 
> were authorized! Given the woefully limited amount of manpower it has to 
> devote to computer crimes, shouldn't the FBI be concentrating on cases 
> where wrongdoing actually occurred?
>
> --Brett Glass



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