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What if I team up with another journalist, and I tell them about curl commands to run but never tell them that they're exploiting vulnerabilities in the company's website? That way they don't have the necessary intent and I never perform any illegal acts?

Do you think the judge would fall for it? Or would we have done a RICO?



No, that's exactly how Barrett Brown ended up in federal prison.




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