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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.legal
Subject: Re: Password hacker gets probation (& other electronic crimes)
Message-ID: <440@opus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-May-84 03:50:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: opus.440
Posted: Thu May  3 03:50:31 1984
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From fish:
>Computer security may be a matter for the law, but in my opinion,
>any organization that is too stupid, lazy, or cheap to implement
>effective security measures deserves to get their passwords hacked.
>If I had a computer system that had been broken into by a 21-year-old
>amateur, I'd prosecute the sheisskopf who set it up for me, not the
>guy that broke into the system.

I don't know about "deserves", but I tend to agree with the general
sentiment.  It seems to me that prosecuting the hacker but not the jerk who
left the system unprotected is a case of killing the bearer of bad tidings
- or perhaps of prosecuting prostitutes but not johns.  If you don't
prosecute one, forget the other.
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...Relax...don't worry...have a homebrew.		Dick Dunn
{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd				(303) 444-5710 x3086