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From: smw@tilt.UUCP (Stewart Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.legal
Subject: Re: Password hacker gets probation (local version)
Message-ID: <96@tilt.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-May-84 22:00:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: tilt.96
Posted: Wed May  2 22:00:21 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 4-May-84 01:15:31 EDT
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Organization: Princeton Univ. EECS
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	>From: north@down.FUN (Professor X)
	>
	>tilt!smw thinks that people who break into computers should be
	>treated with compassion and put on probation.  at princeton we
	>simply cut off their hands: that's what we did to tilt!smw when
	>he tried to grab eosp1!/etc/passwd.  and that's why his account
	>is on tilt, not princeton.
	>	stephen c. north

"Professor X" (who is, by the way, a grad student) sees the irony in the
situation.  So do I, but I wasn't expecting to see it posted.

I won't get defensive about this.  But if you want the *whole* story of that
long-ago fiasco, be it known that there's a lot more to it.  The sordid
details include the fact that I was a naive, inexperienced user of Unix at
the time, with no idea that this was not nice to do.  Boy, did I ever find
out fast.  Live and learn. :-)
--
	Stewart Wiener / Princeton Univ. EECS / princeton!tilt!smw