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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Possibly nefarious users
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.184025.25010@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 18:40:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.164102.672@progress.com> matth@progress.COM (Matthew J. Harper) writes:
>
>Just because a guest account exists does not mean that it is there for all in
>the world to log in and look around!  Perhaps if we looked at a different 
>situation from the same outlook:
>
>  If you leave your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition, does this give
>anyone who walks by the right to take it for a spin?  Even if they return it
>where they found it, nobody saw them do it, and there is really no proof that
>they were there?
>
>  I think anyone would be pretty pissed if this happened.
>
>  Is there really a difference?

Is there really a similarity?  I see a guest account as an invitation.

Oh, and if you made a habit of leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the
ignition, and people came by and took it for a spin now and then, I suspect
the cops would just laugh at you for being such an idiot if you tried to 
prosecute them.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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