full-disclosure - SPAM, credit card numbers, what would you do?

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Message-ID: <1066168668.13435.140.camel@tantor.nuclearelephant.com>
From: jonathan at nuclearelephant.com (Jonathan A. Zdziarski)
Subject: SPAM, credit card numbers, what would you do?

> Also in that vein is Adrian Lamo, an underground hero of the
> highest caliber who has just been arrested for helping many large
> corporations like GE clean up their act.

Hero? Hardly.  His willingness to help out the companies he hacked into
was quickly overshadowed by the fact that he stole hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of services while he was doing it.  He's no hero, he's
an idiot.

Had Adrian Lamo coordinated his efforts with the companies he was
auditing and had their permission to test the network, he would've been
a hero.