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From: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: SUSPEND SYSOPS, NOT STUDENTS
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.205128.27940@sol.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 20:51:28 GMT
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ropg@ooc.uva.nl (Rop Gonggrijp) writes:

>crissl@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (Stefan Linnemann) writes:

>>It could be, yes, because cops could be used to find passwords.
>>However, you could write your own program that would do this.  If
>>anyone would do this and uses or distributes the passwords, and it
>>would come out (as it usually does) all bets are off: the person in
>>question will be suspended and/or denied all access to computers.  YOU
>>CAN GO TO JAIL even, nowadays, for such a stunt.

>Not in democracies.

I assume you are not familiar with the fact that some states in this
democratic nation of ours have trespassing type laws against computer
intrusions of the type being discussed here.
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Marc St.-Gil, UNIX Systems Administrator   mstgil@{sol,vaxa,vaxb}.acs.unt.edu
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