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SecurityFocus HOME News: “ay Adventures m WorldCom Page d or 5 are tines -- particularly sensitive areas -- that he doesn't cross. Lamo prefers the term "security researcher" to "hacker," and steers clear of the usual cyberpunk justifications for his probing: he isn't trying to make the Internet a safer place. "I do what I do, there's no particular motive I can describe." At the same time, he wouldn’t mind seeing the world become safe for his brand of curiosity, for the interactions he's had with some of these companies to be the norm. His is a style of hacking -- open, brash, illegal, but carefully observant of an unwritten code of ethics -~ that went out of style in America at the time of the first hacker crackdowns a decade ago, when Lamo was ten years old, "I've always sort of resented the fact that people that do what I do are in a position where they feel like they have to run and hide," says Lamo. "I'd like it if more people saw curiosity and corporate interests as things that can coexist without contradiction." In keeping with his philosophy of letting "interesting events" find him, Lamo accepts the possibility that someday his Internet exploration may !ead to criminal prosecution. So far, that hasn't happened, but some of the victims/beneficiaries of his attention worry for him, “Because of his approach and what he's doing, maybe he'll be okay,” says a source at one of the companies Lamo's hit in the past. "But the bottom line is, it is unauthorized access, and it's clear when you get into a company’s network that there are disclaimers everywhere you go. I suppose at seme point he could make the wrong people angry, or the timing could be such that he doesn't get a chance to come forward and say, 'Here's how I did it," because they find him first." <tips@securityfocus.com> Discussion Lamo's Adventures in WorldCom Jim Lamo's Adventure WorldCom watsonian Lamo's Adventure WorldCom kr4ft_din3r@hotmail.com [ Discussion Closed ] Privacy Statement | Copyright ©-1999-2003 SecurityFocus http:/Awww.security focus.com/news/296 7117/2003 FBI(19-cv-1495)-1049