Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!athena.cs.uga.edu!mcovingt From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Should we let students run COPS to get each other's passwords? Message-ID: <1991Jun12.170651.4239@athena.cs.uga.edu> Date: 12 Jun 91 17:06:51 GMT References: <1991Jun12.140419.28896@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991Jun12.141657.29238@athena.cs.uga.edu> Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Lines: 17 In article muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes: >In article <1991Jun12.141657.29238@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes: > (2) Are you saying "People with easy-to-guess passwords deserve to have their > accounts broken into"? Blame the victim, of course, folks! Do you say > the same thing about rape victims? > >No, and no. However, I've heard this comparison to rape before, and it >is not a very good one. A better one would be something like not >locking the front door of your house. Does that mean I have no right to prosecute a burglar who happens to get in through an unlocked door? Does the unlocked door justify burglary??? -- ------------------------------------------------------- Michael A. Covington | Artificial Intelligence Programs The University of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602 U.S.A. -------------------------------------------------------