Microsoft & Apple vs. The White Hat Hacker
The life of a white hat hacker isn't one I envy. They do an amazing job of uncovering security exploits that threaten us all, but whistle blowers who come forward too often seem to get the cold shoulder, or worse yet, labeled as criminals. This is the situation allegedly facing Goatse security, the firm that first reported on the iPad data leak that exposed over 114,000 iPad email accounts last week.
According to a Goatse spokesman known only as "Weev", "We did this as niceguy as we could. The Wall Street Journal wrote an article that implies pretty strongly that we are criminals. We did not publically release the dataset, we waited until we confirmed the system was secured before we went public with technical details. I hope they don't try to get charges pressed but if charges are pressed we will fight it and win".
