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Article #722Re: System admins looking for scapegoats
From: Jack Jansen
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 13:45
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 13:45
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Well, I should really have let this gone by, but I can't: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes: >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. Actually, here in Holland it is. I can't remember the exact reasoning, but it is something like 'failing to take the necessary precautions to protect your property'. -- -- Een volk dat voor tirannen zwicht | Oral: Jack Jansen zal meer dan lijf en goed verliezen | Internet: jack@cwi.nl dan dooft het licht | Uucp: hp4nl!cwi.nl!jack
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!tardis!tymix!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!cwi.nl!jack From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: System admins looking for scapegoats Message-ID: <3748@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 20 Jun 91 13:45:43 GMT References: <20740@slice.ooc.uva.nl> <3689@charon.cwi.nl> <1991Jun14.211249.17939@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: news@cwi.nl Lines: 21