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The Tsunami “Hacker” Story

Started by Daniel Miessler · 7 months ago

As many of you know, there is currently a story about a security consultant by the name of Daniel Cuthbert who’s been convicted of illegally accessing a Tsunami relief web page after making a donation.

There are widely varying views on this, but let’s first lay down ... Continue reading »

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  • Tim

    3 years ago

    Lots of people are behind bars because they did something stupid.

    Honestly I think stupity is no less evil than immorality or malice.
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  • Michael S Black

    3 years ago

    If you can get this kind of sentence for simply adding "../../../" to a URL, why oh WHY do we still have script kiddies??!! I do this all the time at work when I am investigating sites that "appear" to be phishing sites trying to look my companies online portal, does this mean I can no longer do this if they reside in the UK? I can't do any investigative work in trying to determine whether they are ripping our customers off? I suppose I then must contact LEO and ask some officer to do this. What kind of priority can I expect the UK Law Enforcement Community to give my "possible" phish site? I think the implications of this ruling are WAY MORE imperative to pay attention to than the individual repercussions of Mr. Cuthbert, as sad as they may be.
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  • Daniel Miessler

    3 years ago

    If you read into it, though, Michael, the issue was deception rather than the act itself. He lied about what he did for quite a bit and then recanted later. Bad form.

    Not sure it deserves what he got, but still...bad form.
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  • Ken

    3 years ago

    It is very difficult to define morality. Most laws are/or should be based off of intent. What this guys did that was major wrong was lie. As an information security professional he should have told the truth right away.
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  • Michael S Black

    3 years ago

    Bad form, Yeah...conviction worthy...I don't really know if I would agree with that..Will it make me be on my toes from now on, even more so that I am already...DEFINITELY
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