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From: sean@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Sean R Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: i want my i want my i want my Hacker-label
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Date: 7 Oct 90 03:28:34 GMT
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In article <1990Oct6.051320.2014@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>I don't think Stoll had any malicious intent, but if any two-bit
>systems admin wanna-be ever "liberates" any equipment from my office
>s/he's in deep shit.  As simple as that.  Would you mind if I "liberated"
>your car/truck/bicycle/horse while you weren't using it?

Would you mind if I "liberated" your office chair while you weren't
using it?  I'd be bothered if someone didn't put it back.  I'd be
worried if I thought that whomever liberated it were fumble
fingered / technically incompetent.  Would you mind if someone
"liberated" a pen from your desk?  I might feel a bit of an invasion
of privacy was going on but I doubt anyone would pay me much mind,
other than to not choose me when next they went to "liberate"
something.  Keep things in perspective.

Sean Owens
sean@hpb.cis.pitt.edu

P.S.  Which does not mean that there aren't instances where such
midnight requisitioning might be out of line, for instance if a hard
drive was borrowed that had sensitive or private information on it.