"Chris Nandor" <yahoo@...> writes:

> At 05:26 -0700 2001.08.29, merlyn@... wrote:
> >We need to move. We need to provide safe harbor for whistleblowers!
>
> None of these cases are about the simple process of whistleblowing.
>
> So anyway, people are not being prosecuted for whistleblowing, they are
> being prosecuted for clear violations of the law. Sklyarov broke a bad
> law, one we should fight to overturn. West dumbly broke a reasonable law,
> and should be shown a great deal of leniency.

Good points Chris.

What about some kind of 'Code of Conduct' that suggests reasonable
behaviour in light of security flaws? This could help illumnitate the
gray area between suspicious but cracker-like behavior and suspicious
but samaritan-like behavior.

Attending Randall's JACPH's would be best, education is always best,
but in some sense people will always be dumb and allow their
curiousity to have them do things. We need a way to help the legal
system show leniency when people were dumb versus being intentionally
malicious.

jas.