Posts: 10,689
Name: Steven Bradley
Location: Boulder, Colorado
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Sadly it's such a touchy issue. While you may be honestly trying to help a company by informing them of the holes in their security there's just as much chance of them accusing you of hacking into their system and alerting the authorities.
It's sad because the word hacker is now associated with crime instead of with intellectual curiosity and creative problem solving, which is more in line with what the word really means.
I know if someone alerted me to a flaw in my site that could potentially lead to something malicious I would thank the person who let me know and ask if they could help me fix the hole. It's a shame that many companies would take the opposite stance.
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