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From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: System admins looking for scapegoats
Message-ID: <3748@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 20 Jun 91 13:45:43 GMT
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Well, I should really have let this gone by, but I can't:

jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes:

>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.

Actually, here in Holland it is. I can't remember the exact reasoning,
but it is something like 'failing to take the necessary precautions
to protect your property'.
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