somebody <x### [at] ycom> wrote:
> And one more thing to say on the subject: Why is it that people think the
> ease by which one can commit a cybercrime justifies it?

  Finding a security weakness and then *not* exploiting it for your own
selfish purposes but instead reporting the weakness so that they will
patch it justifies it.

  The other alternative is that you will not report it (for the fear of
a lawsuit) and then a malicious hacker will find it and exploit it for
malicious purposes. And then everyone is happy?

> And it's not like the hacker accidentally came
> across them in his browsing, he had a clear intent to break in and worked at
> it.

  Oh, right. If you accidentally find a weakness and report it, that's
just ok, but if you intentionally try to find weaknesses in order to
report them, you should go to jail. That makes sense.

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                                                          - Warp

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