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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: <1991Jun13.152441.28268@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 15:24:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1991Jun13.152441.28268
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In article <1991Jun13.033953.16881@redsox.bsw.com> campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:
>In
>I think Michael Covington would have him clapped in irons immediately.  I,
>however, claim that he has done nothing illegal, or even immoral.  The line
>would be crossed, though, if he tried to *use* the key (without my
>permission), or if he gave the key to someone else.
>
>There's entirely too much hysteria surrounding hacking -- it's beginning to
>sound a bit like the entirely specious War on Drugs -- and it sounds like
>Michael Covington, and some of the other readers of this group, have
>succumbed.


Let's discuss ideas here, not people.

Please do not attach my name to your untested hypotheses.



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