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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (1607)	5/25/2001 3:15:20 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 12465

Kerry, excellent article (as usual) from Aaron Elstein. How many times have we all seen articles or news reports warning people how easy it is to do such and such unethical or illegal act? What H&R Block should have done, at most, is demand Yahoo remove the message in question -- and -- no matter what, figured out how to solve what appears to be a flaw in their tax preparation system that very well could result in fraud. As an alternative, I was going to suggest that they could have posted a message debunking the one in question, but it seems that by virtue of their lawsuit they've admitted Mr. Littell had valid points they feared being made public. I hope Mr. Littell wins and wins big. - Jeff

To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (1607)	5/25/2001 3:37:28 PM
From: mmmary	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12465

It's legal to know how to... ...build a bomb. It's just illegal to build one and kill people, harm property with it. Same with hacking. Legal to know how to do and talk about it, illegal to do it and harm others. There are a zillion hacking/cracking newsgroups not to mention gun newsgroups that talk about about things that are illegal. You just can't DO anything illegal. As long as that guy did not do what he was talking about and send it into the IRS to get illegal money from them, he did nothing wrong. They should be thankful he showed them their weakness. They were just embarassed about it. In the hacking newsgroup, companies offer money to individuals if they can hack in and show them how they did it.