FBI against "dental software researcher"

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    FBI against "dental software researcher"

    Someone alerts you to exposed, unencrypted patient information on your FTP server. Is the correct response to thank them profusely or try to have them charged as a criminal hacker?

    It is not a trick question. Once again, a security researcher has found himself facing possible prosecution under a federal statute known as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). His crime, according to a dental-industry software company, was accessing what had been left publicly available on the open Internet.

    Meet dental computer technician and software security researcher Justin Shafer, 36, of Texas.

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    WTF is going on in the U.S.A.? Land of the free and the home of the brave! The brave Justin is in jail now, no more free. :facepalm:
     
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