al-khabaz

The difference is Mr Al-Khabaz continuing to try to break into the web servers.

You are overlooking the fact that Al-Khabaz informed the system owner 2 days prior of the problem.

Al-Khabaz used some noninvasive scanner, which didn't bring any serious technical overhead, is it ok by you?

No, what this tells me is that Mr Al-Khabaz continued trying to hack the server even when told to stop.

From the information given, it seems Al-Khabaz did exactly or better than what was expected of him for the first.

By refusing due process to Al-Khabaz and expelling him with zeroes for his last semester grades, Al-Khabaz now had nothing to lose exposing both the security flaw and the injustice to the press.

Al-Khabaz informed university/company and was initiator of that talk, so it kinda clears him.

Al-Khabaz were definitely unlawful and unethical, that remains to be seen.

Al-Khabaz walked around your house, saw the broken lock on your back door, then came to your front door, knocked and told you about that.

Al-Khabaz notified relevant authorities and did get thanks at first.

I don't see how a reasonable person would conclude Al-Khabaz's actions were malicious.

Al-Khabaz decided to run a software program called Acunetix, designed to test for vulnerabilities in websites, to ensure that the issues he and Mija had identified had been corrected.

Al-Khabaz, and fourteen voted in favour." To me what this says is their computer science department is full of idiots.

Al-Khabaz ran to verify the system was fixed crossed a line." The administration of Dawson College clearly saw things differently, proceeding to expel Mr.

Al-Khabaz and colleague Ovidiu Mija for their work and promised that he and Skytech, the makers of Omnivox, would fix the problem immediately" -> Mr.

Al-Khabaz for a “serious professional conduct issue.” He is a student, how can be have a "Professional conduct issue"