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From: gln@cs.arizona.edu (GaRY NEweLl)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Possibly nefarious users
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Date: 7 Jun 91 20:48:06 GMT
References: <2D.-_.N@cs.widener.edu> <1991Jun6.214915.18946@athena.mit.edu> <1991Jun7.164102.672@progress.com>
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In article <1991Jun7.164102.672@progress.com>, matth@progress.COM (Matthew J. Harper) writes:
> This is indeed a no-no. Not a whole lot is being done about it legally at the
> moment, but a few cases have come to trial and the accused have been found
> guilty of actions such as this.  (Randomly banging on machines to try and
> gain access.)

Could you point me towards some of these cases - I find it hard to believe 
that the only thing the accused did was try to log into a machine - I
assume that there was some form of damage no?