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Or maybe that's what you want us to think. After that last hack, you'd be rather high on the suspect list.

• jgrahamc 17y ago
  Hmm. I wasn't smart enough to think of that angle. I guess I wouldn't make a very good criminal mastermind. Oh well. But remember on that Hacker News hack, I just thought of the possibility. Someone else did the actual work (and, in fact, totally independently of me).
• mahmud 17y ago
  Get off the guy's back. That last hack was both clever and responsible. Having the ability to find security problems does NOT make one a suspect automatically.
  • jacquesm 17y ago
    Actually, in most companies that is exactly what it does.
    • jgrahamc 17y ago
      Agreed. I wonder at what point intelligence and knowledge become an arrestable offense. I own a set of lock picks. If I were to carry these outside of my home in the UK (since I am not a locksmith) I could be arrested for the offense of "going equipped" --- Section 25 Theft Act 1968 (1) A person shall be guilty of an offence if, when not at his place of abode, he has with him any article for use in the course of or in connection with any burglary, theft or cheat. (3) Where a person is charged with an offence under this section, proof that he had with him any article made or adapted for use in committing a burglary, theft or cheat shall be evidence that he had it with him for such use. --- Am I "going equipped" on a daily basis?
      • jacquesm 17y ago
        The joke goes that a locksmith was arrested for 'going equipped' and he countered they should arrest him for rape as well...