Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!utkcs2!!brown From: brown@cs.utk.edu (Lance A. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: sysop liability/responsibility Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 19:00:36 GMT References: <1991May20.130200.11894@unlinfo.unl.edu> <3935@d75.UUCP> <1991May21.120543.1000@eff.org> Sender: usenet@cs.utk.edu (USENET News Poster) Distribution: na Organization: University of Tenn., Knoxville, Dept. of Computer Science Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: mnemonic@eff.org's message of 21 May 91 12:05:43 GMT >In article <1991May21.120543.1000@eff.org>, mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes: > 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. All I can say is that the person doing this represented himself as a government agent, ( I do not remember which agency specifically ) and that I have spoken personally with the sysops of one board where this occured and was warned to immediately change my password by the sysops of the three largest BBS's in Knoxville. I will recontact the sysop I spoke with and attempt to obtain more information regarding this. Lance -- brown@cs.utk.edu Lance A. Brown The Crystal Wind is the Storm, 3500 Sutherland Avenue, Apt. L-303 and the Storm is Data, Knoxville, TN 37919 and the Data is Life -- The Player's Litany from _The Long Run_ by D.K. Moran