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Article #668Re: System admins looking for scapegoats
From: J Eric Townsend
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 21:12
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 21:12
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In article <3689@charon.cwi.nl> jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) writes: >True, students who mail out password files or write internet worms >should receive some punishment, but the main part of the blame lies >with the administrators. If I leave my bike unlocked and you nick it >you are guilty, but so am I. Oh, bullshit. Guilty of what? What crime? You might not get much sympathy, but it's certainly not against the law. If a person sees your unlocked bike and tells their friend the bicycle thief, then both of them have committed a crime. You have not. >should take some measures to protect yourself. Failing to do so and I do. But I'm not omnipotent. I can only plug holes that I know about. -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126 Skate UNIX! (curb fault: skater dumped) -- If you're hacking PowerGloves and Amigas, drop me a line. --
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Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) Subject: Re: System admins looking for scapegoats Message-ID: <1991Jun14.211249.17939@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: karazm.math.uh.edu Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics References: <20740@slice.ooc.uva.nl> <3689@charon.cwi.nl> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 21:12:49 GMT