News: When is hacking a crime?
 
OK, I'm not a fan of the creeps out there who spend their feeble, wasted lives trying to do damage to other people's computers and data. I am a fan of people who look for flaws (read bad programming) in software and then force the software makers to fix said flaws. If software makers did not, periodically, have their virtual feet held to the figurative fire, we would be awash in badly designed and badly executed software.
 
Which is why I think the above link should be must reading. Somehow, the "gray hats" of the article must be protected from the corporate and governmental types who would restrict them.
 
Read the article.