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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: IRC and Security
Keywords: IRC SECURITY
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.122807.23782@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 17 Mar 91 12:28:07 GMT
References: <7763@uceng.UC.EDU>
Organization: Contributed Software
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pmartin@uceng.UC.EDU (Paul Martin) writes:
>1) IRC is a meeting place for hackers and pirates.

you know what? if some pirate would login into to your machine
and download some commercial software i'd blame *you* that he
was able to download it (unless the pirate has bin/root login
in the first place, then i'd probably shoot you) if you are the
admin). why? cause you didn't chmod -r the commercial binaries.

if your users give away their logins i'd blame you too for
not making them aware of the legal stuff that's involved.

if you become the victim of something like the internet worm,
*that's* something you can't get blamed for.
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