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From: johnc@dartvax.UUCP (John Cabell)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.legal
Subject: Re: Password hacker gets probation (& other electronic crimes)
Message-ID: <1444@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-May-84 16:37:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  4 16:37:01 1984
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  I agree, also, that intent should be considered when giving
a sentence to someone who breaks into a system, but there is
the problem of finding out if he *relly was* just breking in
to see if it could be done, or if he was trying to get some
secrets hidden deep in memory.
  But I think that the difficulty of breaking into the system
should be considered.  It takes alot of time, effort and money
to make a difficult system, and if some high school/college
student breaks into it on a rainy sunday afternoon, it shows
one that the system can't have been that difficult and two
that the company has to get someone to design another system.

               John Cabell,
               --johnc
               <decvax, cornell>!dartvax!johnc