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In cwru.general clu@cwru.edu wrote:

> The offending machine has been quarantined, and ITS Customer Service
> will be in contact with the owner.

        <OB B5 ref> I'd like to send the Narn Bat Squad after the owner...
"Customer Service" is too polite for it.

I would like to raise the following University Policy question:

        At what point should damage/disruption resulting from a users's
compromised computer system, or from purposeful action on the part of
a user, be considered in the same vein as doing physical violence to
University property?  (user = assumed to be CWRU student/staff/faculty)
If I go on a rampage and smash holes in the walls of my office, I am
financially responsible for the damage repair...or if I tear up the flower
beds outside...or slug somebody just because I don't like them...etc.

        I really think I want to see The Stark Fist Of Removal come down
on people who compromise the network...the Giant Foot from "Bambi Meets
Godzilla" (or from "Monty Python").  CWRUnet was totally unusable from
the outside world last night around 10 PM.  To me, that's like someone
throwing random circuit breakers in the powerplant, just to see what
lights go out where on campus.

        *Rich*  #include <std_curmudgeon.h>

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