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Article #648Re: SUSPEND SYSOPS, NOT STUDENTS
From: Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 20:51
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 20:51
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ropg@ooc.uva.nl (Rop Gonggrijp) writes:
>crissl@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (Stefan Linnemann) writes:
>>It could be, yes, because cops could be used to find passwords.
>>However, you could write your own program that would do this. If
>>anyone would do this and uses or distributes the passwords, and it
>>would come out (as it usually does) all bets are off: the person in
>>question will be suspended and/or denied all access to computers. YOU
>>CAN GO TO JAIL even, nowadays, for such a stunt.
>Not in democracies.
I assume you are not familiar with the fact that some states in this
democratic nation of ours have trespassing type laws against computer
intrusions of the type being discussed here.
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Marc St.-Gil, UNIX Systems Administrator mstgil@{sol,vaxa,vaxb}.acs.unt.edu
University of North Texas 817/565-2324 mstgil@{ponder,solo}.csci.unt.edu
Academic Computing Services DISCLAIMER: My employers had no idea I was
PO Box 13495, Denton TX, 76203 going to say that.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sol.acs.unt.edu!mstgil From: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: SUSPEND SYSOPS, NOT STUDENTS Message-ID: <1991Jun13.205128.27940@sol.acs.unt.edu> Date: 13 Jun 91 20:51:28 GMT References: <20740@slice.ooc.uva.nl> Reply-To: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 22