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Story: Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Posted by: David B. Wildgoose (Monday 10 October 2005, 6:27 PM)
A lot of fuss is being made about him initially lying about his actions.
But surely it is human nature to get scared at the heavy-handed response he was faced with?
After all, his livelihood was on the line even though he had done nothing wrong.
And it looks like he was proved correct.
Somehow I can't see this encouraging a helpful attitude from members of the IT community, it looks like the best response henceforth will be "I've done nothing wrong, and I refuse to say any more than that" - and then cite this case.
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Story: Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
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Pretty scary to think that only a government-autho... Rich Willis
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The situation has arisen due to the wordings of th... Praveen Dalal
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Just goes to show that like the majority of the la... Sb
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His biggest mistakes where, to be British, to live... Anon
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