Re: Possibly nefarious users

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From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 05:32

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jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone) writes:

>    Yes.  By using your car, they are preventing you from doing the
>same.  By using your guest account, however, they, in most situations,
>will not be depriving you of resources.  Also, they may well damage
>your car by driving (a well-built, quality car still has the
>possiblity of the user breaking it); your guest account, if correctly
>installed, would not have the ability to damage the system.  These
>seem like two important distinctions to me.

Sorry, but it is *impossible* to use even a guest account and not be 
using *some* system resources. A socket, if nothing else. More likely
one of a *limited* number of ports. 

Finally, the *correct* moral standard is "it's not yours!", not "But I'm
not hurting anything." Property rights *do* exist in c-space.

-- 
Leonard Erickson			leonard@qiclab.uucp
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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
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