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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend)
Subject: Re: System admins looking for scapegoats
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 21:12:49 GMT

In article <3689@charon.cwi.nl> jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) writes:
>True, students who mail out password files or write internet worms
>should receive some punishment, but the main part of the blame lies
>with the administrators. If I leave my bike unlocked and you nick it
>you are guilty, but so am I.

Oh, bullshit.  Guilty of what?  What crime?  You might not get much
sympathy, but it's certainly not against the law.  If a person
sees your unlocked bike and tells their friend the bicycle thief,
then both of them have committed a crime. You have not.

>should take some measures to protect yourself. Failing to do so and

I do.  But I'm not omnipotent.  I can only plug holes that I know about.

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