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Article #564Re: Possibly nefarious users
From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 18:40
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 18:40
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In article <1991Jun7.164102.672@progress.com> matth@progress.COM (Matthew J. Harper) writes:
>
>Just because a guest account exists does not mean that it is there for all in
>the world to log in and look around! Perhaps if we looked at a different
>situation from the same outlook:
>
> If you leave your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition, does this give
>anyone who walks by the right to take it for a spin? Even if they return it
>where they found it, nobody saw them do it, and there is really no proof that
>they were there?
>
> I think anyone would be pretty pissed if this happened.
>
> Is there really a difference?
Is there really a similarity? I see a guest account as an invitation.
Oh, and if you made a habit of leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the
ignition, and people came by and took it for a spin now and then, I suspect
the cops would just laugh at you for being such an idiot if you tried to
prosecute them.
--
Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
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