What if he's an agent of a repressive government who wants to surreptitiously research on human rights organizations in order to find dissidents to arrest?

If what they're trying to do is above board, state the objective up front rather than coming at it obliquely. There've been posters in the past that had questions in a similar vein that turned out to be trying to defraud someone (there've been other script kiddies; that's just the one that sticks in my mind due to the persistence and the astonishing utter ignorance of how networks work (OK, and the presence of one of my all time highest rep nodes :)).

In reply to Re^3: (OT) safe to mechanize? by Fletch
in thread (OT) safe to mechanize? by Anonymous Monk

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