Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!ogicse!pdxgate!qiclab!leonard From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Possibly nefarious users Message-ID: <1991Jun10.053229.4305@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Date: 10 Jun 91 05:32:29 GMT Article-I.D.: qiclab.1991Jun10.053229.4305 References: <2D.-_.N@cs.widener.edu> <1991Jun6.214915.18946@athena.mit.edu>, <1991Jun7.164102.672@progress.com> Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon. Lines: 21 jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone) writes: > Yes. By using your car, they are preventing you from doing the >same. By using your guest account, however, they, in most situations, >will not be depriving you of resources. Also, they may well damage >your car by driving (a well-built, quality car still has the >possiblity of the user breaking it); your guest account, if correctly >installed, would not have the ability to damage the system. These >seem like two important distinctions to me. Sorry, but it is *impossible* to use even a guest account and not be using *some* system resources. A socket, if nothing else. More likely one of a *limited* number of ports. Finally, the *correct* moral standard is "it's not yours!", not "But I'm not hurting anything." Property rights *do* exist in c-space. -- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.uucp personal: CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com business: CIS: [76376,1107] 76376.1107@compuserve.com