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Are 'White Hat' Hackers Unfairly Under Siege?

Date: August 8, 2001
Author: Robert Vamosi
QUOTE: Aren't we squelching the whistle-blower hackers (the white hats) who are keeping the software industry in check? Or should we just trust the software giants...

ABSTRACT: Freedom of Speech versus Corporate Security comes to the fore with a discussion of the ability of hacker's to discover and create methods for subversion of protection codes and other safeguards is a guarantee against getting locked into Big Brotherdom and should not be able to be legislated against.  What one actually DOES with the knowledge after it is designed or created, though, is entirely another matter.  (I.e., designing, building, or selling a gun is NOT the same thing as committing a murder...) ....

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