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From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Ten Commandments of Personal Computing
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Date: 19 Jul 89 09:40:58 GMT
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In article <66667@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> root@yale.UUCP (Root Of All Evil) writes:
<In article <42793@bbn.COM> you write:
<> In article <TALE.89Jul15133947@imagine.pawl.rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu writes:
<> } > IX.  THOU SHALT NOT SNOOP IN THY NEIGHBOR'S FILES
<>
<> OK, do you feel free to roam through your colleagues
<> offices/desks/briefcases/cars/floppy files just because they're not under lock
<> and key?  
<
<Most people who discuss this overlook one fact in their analogies:  When you
<look through someone's directory, the owner probably doesn't know that you
<are doing so and can't really find out.  (I'm not talking about contrived
<cases of world-readable log files and such things here.)
<
<When your office (car, briefcase, desk) is left open or your floppies lying
<around, someone looking for things in them stands a chance (perhaps high,
<perhaps low) of being caught.  There are people walking past my office all
<the time; a snoop will probably be caught either by a co-worker or by me.
<Of course, anyone pondering snooping through my stuff must first consider
<his chances of being caught and the consequences that he could face.

Right! Since you can't get caught snooping on a computer, it most be
OK.

Why do I feel sick...

	<mike
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