On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 10:34, Brian Daniels wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:17:31AM -0400, Dan Monjar wrote:
> > 
> > Who was the famous Perl hacker that did federal time a few years ago 
> > because he tried to help Intel?  He was a contractor on-site and pulled 
> > down a passwd file to show them how many weak passwords they had.  They 
> > were not amused.
> > 
> 
> Randal Schwartz
> http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/
> 
> If you're going to do any sort of penetration testing, get authorization in 
> writing first.  
> 
> --Brian
> 
Good Link! That one's going into my archives.

I've generally handled these incidents privately but I've had to nuke a
few interns in my day. Most notable was the son of one of the VP's from
a company I once worked at. He was "helping" his old high school out by
scanning it's network from our Training servers.  Big no-no.

He was fortunate they didn't want to press charges.

Jon

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