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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Student suspended for distributing /etc/passwd
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.165528.19569@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 16:55:28 GMT
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In article <0aNq42w164w@cellar.UUCP> rogue@cellar.UUCP (Rache McGregor) writes:
>mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
>>   Our student was suspended for aiding a series of break-ins in progress.
>
>This is the second time you have made the statement "suspended for aiding a 
>series of break-ins in progress."  Yet when we ask you about the alleged 
>cracker making the break-ins, you say that you can reveal nothing because an 
>investigation is in progress.
>
>You have already tried, convicted, and sentenced a student in a court of 
>academic justice for aiding someone who apparently has not been charged by 
>any academic or state judicial system.
>
  Of course. Never heard of separate jurisdictions?

  Must we catch all the crackers in the world before taking action against
  any one of them? 

  What _this_ fellow did was perfectly clear. Related incidents are still
  being investigated. You folks are going to have to live with the fact
  that I can't post a full description of the case.
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Michael A. Covington | Artificial Intelligence Programs
The University of Georgia  |  Athens, GA 30602   U.S.A.
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