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Re:Ask HN: How to Find a Developer Job with a Felony? by jcampbell1 on Friday June 27, 2014 @12:21PM (#7954749)
Your description of the events seems overly mild to me.

I read that he POC'd a site, and then disclosed it the same day to @lulzsec.

The latter is what got him the felony, but you make it seem like the former or his timing was the problem.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Find a Developer Job with a Felony? by sarciszewski on Friday June 27, 2014 @12:34PM (#7954833)
The FBI agents said if I had done it six weeks prior, they wouldn't be arresting me they'd be saying "Don't do it again."
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Re:Ask HN: How to Find a Developer Job with a Felony? by jcampbell1 on Friday June 27, 2014 @12:57PM (#7954976)
In fairness, lulzsec did morph from "security research group tired of waiting for site operators to protect their users" to "blackhat hacker collective".

The timing was a major problem. If you do have to defend yourself, I think saying you misjudged the nature of lulzsec is a defensible thing to say.

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