Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!world!eff!mnemonic From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) Subject: Re: sysop liability/responsibility Message-ID: <1991May21.120543.1000@eff.org> Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation References: <1991May20.130200.11894@unlinfo.unl.edu> <3935@d75.UUCP> Distribution: na Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 12:05:43 GMT Lines: 27 In article <3935@d75.UUCP> bei@rt_trace.austin.ibm.com (Bob Izenberg) writes: >message.) > >>I find this >>kind of behavior reprehensible, and what I would call entrapment. The fact >>that this agent had somehow stolen passwords also makes me angry. > >It sounds like entrapment to me as well. Will someone explain to me why he believes that this person harassing Knoxville BBSs was actually a government agent? In none of these stories has anyone actually *seen* the purported agent, gotten a name, or checked an ID. I think it's a little premature to lay these antics at the door of the government. --Mike -- Mike Godwin, | To see a world in a grain of sand mnemonic@eff.org | And heaven in a wild flower (617) 864-0665 | Hold infinity in the palm of your hand EFF, Cambridge, MA | And eternity in an hour