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From: sebb@pyuxss.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Hackers beware:media on the loose again!
Message-ID: <194@pyuxss.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Nov-83 10:19:23 EST
Article-I.D.: pyuxss.194
Posted: Thu Nov  3 10:19:23 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Nov-83 13:55:08 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Piscataway
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	I'm sorry to have to bring up this subject again but
what I heard on the news last night was just too hard to take.
Seems some person(I think it was a student somewhere) has been
arrested for "malicious use of a computer"(Hey, maybe we can
get rabbit!jj arrested for that! :-) ). I'm sure that this
person was probably arrested for a good reason, like attempting
to tamper with someone else's info, but the way the media reports
these things is enough to make me barf. They said this person had
accessed...sure you can handle this...the ARPANET. Would someone
please tell me if someone out there getting into the ARPANET
could actually get into something sensitive?? I access the USENET
everyday but I certainly haven't come across anything terribly
important. The media by giving the words behind the acronym
ARPANET made it sound like this person was ready to produce
the movie "Wargames" for real. Boy, the media is going to great
lengths to make everyone who works on a computer look like
a criminal. We better start to watch what we say here on the
USENET; never know who is listening!
				Signed,
			Someone who has no criminal intentions
			beyond getting SuperRogue during
			working hours!