> Forget punishment, that's not even the point. Warp and some others think
> that *reporting* of the incident was wrong, and that the hacker should 
> have
> been rewarded instead, which is an order of magnitude harder to 
> understand.

Yeh, I didn't really understand why Warp said:

"That will teach him to never tell about his hacking again."

When the *telling* about the security hole is not the problem, the problem 
is when he actually *did* the hacking on 32 students, and even much worse, 
distributed the data to lots of people (and not just the system owners).

I know for sure that I could install a keylogger on my colleagues computer 
and get his password.  Does that mean that I should be allowed to do it 
without permission from the system owners and send the results to my 
friends, "for the sake of improving security"?  Absolutely no way, not in a 
million years.

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