Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!gvlf3.gvl.unisys.com!tredysvr!cellar!rogue From: rogue@cellar.UUCP (Rache McGregor) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: sysop liability/responsibility Message-ID: <67Lo36w164w@cellar.UUCP> Date: 29 May 91 00:07:28 GMT References: Sender: bbs@cellar.UUCP (The Cellar BBS) Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system Lines: 26 brown@cs.utk.edu (Lance A. Brown) writes: /* Prior discussion removed */ > 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 I'd like to know how the accounts that the 'agent' used were ascertained to be stolen. Were these BBSes invitation-only or public access systems? Had the 'agent' previously been removed from or refused validation to these boards? [The use of quotes around the word agent is not meant to be combative. It is meant to convey the unaffirmed identity of the caller involved.] Rogue Winter | "The truth knocks on the door and you say, rogue@cellar.uucp | "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so uunet!cellar!rogue | it goes away. Puzzling." Cellar 215/3369503 | -Robert Pirsig (quoted in Zen_To_Go, Jon Winokur)