Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!shelby!helens!baroque!jim From: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Musing on Constitutionality Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 90 22:19:02 GMT References: <11503@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <82778@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <11521@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1990Sep3.182712.2260@world.std.com> <11548@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <11560@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Sender: news@helens.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford University Lines: 16 In-reply-to: bzs@world.std.com's message of 5 Sep 90 19:33:13 GMT Given the previous message, which should get the higher priority: better security or better ethics? Either could have prevented it. Maybe spaf is right that "helping to establish a sense of responsibility in users of networks and computers" is as important as protecting our rights. Irresponsibility can cause a loss of support or in severe cases even a backlash. It could be quite a mess, a muckraker's holiday. The global NET: home of forgers, slanderers, pornographers, crackers ... ... send in the cops... Better to be sane now than sorry later. Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics Durand 012 Stanford University FAX: (415) 725-3377 (jim@KAOS.stanford.edu) Voice: (415) 723-9127