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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: <1991Jun15.152057.7681@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 91 15:20:57 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.053131.753@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> <1991Jun14.193545.24869@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991Jun15.024453.17639@redsox.bsw.com>
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In article <1991Jun15.024453.17639@redsox.bsw.com> campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:

>"Obtaining information" is not a breach of
>confidentiality.  To violate a confidence, there must first *be* a confidence
>to be violated.  A confidence exists when person A gives person B some
>information, person B having agreed -- either implicitly or explicitly --
>to keep the information to himself.
>

You've deliberately misunderstood what I meant by "confidential."
Passwords are secret. Period. You have no right to decrypt other
people's passwords. Period. Regardless of the technical difficulty or ease
of doing so.

OK then, if passwords aren't secret, give me yours!!!


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