Report Security Problems, Face The Consequences 552
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Doing a good deed has caused one man a lot of trouble in the past year. Brian K. West, a tech support junky in a SE. Oklahoman ISP is now facing felony charges due to alerting his competition about a serious security flaw in their systems. The full story can be found at LinuxFreak.org ... I find this rather disturbing that our federal government would do such a thing to someone.." The details of the story lead to some head-scratching.
Interesting Tactic (Score:5, Funny)
PHB: "Good work, Johnson! That'll show 'em!"
Naked Woman Seeks Sex at Airport [slant-six.org]
He's a witch... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who-hoo! Land of the Free! (Score:2, Funny)
The DMCA strikes again! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:this is not a new thing (Score:1, Funny)
Next time anyone finds a security hole, better cover its own tracks and disclose the hole to the underground. Script kiddies will teach them to call the police when somebody shows that they have a problem.
Re:He's a witch... (Score:0, Funny)
Common Sense and Peeping Toms (Score:2, Funny)
Concerned Citizen: "Mr. Smith, I'm calling because I noticed that your bedroom blinds are partially open and I can see your wife walking around in the nude. I thought I'd bring this to your attention so you can remedy the situation before more malicious sorts exploit the breach in your window dressings."
Smith:"Are you sure about this?"
Concerned Citizen: "Yes sir. Just to be sure, I pulled out my binoculars. I can tell you that your wife has a pierced left nipple and a tattoo of Bugs Bunny on her right butt cheek. Oh, and I'm sorry about your lack of gift. They say that size really doesn't matter anyway..."
Smith: You bastard!!
What about MS? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Important lesson (Score:2, Funny)
It's a trap! (Score:1, Funny)
Report Security Problems, Face The Consequences
Posted by timothy on Saturday August 18, @12:09PM
Re:yeah (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well, what did YOU do ? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I once did something like this...But won't agai (Score:1, Funny)
Also, would you tell us your address and save us the trouble of looking it up? We would like to uh, discuss your *discovery* further.
Special Agent Jones
Federal Bureau of Instigations...
Re:Similar experience, but with a happy ending. (Score:2, Funny)
Dee Em See Ay (Score:2, Funny)