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10 Oct 2024 08:19:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: White hat? Black Hat?  
From: scott
Date: 15 Sep 2008 04:14:40
Message: <48ce1970$1@news.povray.org>
>  No, he spotted a technical security flaw in the computer system, and
> pointed it out so that it could be fixed,

But his mistake was to go several steps further, and actually "demonstrate" 
the security floor by installing keyloggers and magnetic card readers, then 
accessing 32 different student accounts illegally and sending his findings 
to 37 of his mates.  Had he just written the document and sent it to the 
university, fine.


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