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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: misc.headlines,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Hacker Scholarship
Message-ID: <1594@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 14:33:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: celtics.1594
Posted: Mon Jun 22 14:33:00 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 04:25:17 EDT
References: <2757@mtgzz.UUCP> <345@genesis.UUCP> <532@houxa.UUCP>
Reply-To: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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Organization: CELERITY (Northeast Area), Framingham, MA
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Keywords: Wozniak, CU, Apple, security
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In article <532@houxa.UUCP> mel1@houxa.UUCP (M.HAAS) writes:
>I think the damage is being done by the people who bury their heads
>in the sand and foist these security horrors onto the public, not
>the college kid hackers.
>
And, in the same vein:

- Don't blame the burglar, blame the guy with inadequate alarms.
- Don't blame the murderer, blame the guy who goes out without
  suitable body armor.
- Don't blame the rapist, blame the woman who's "asking for it"...

>Make it so that nothing gets onto any storage hardware in clear text.
>Don't allow anyone to get access to the system without their handy-dandy
>vest pocket gadget.  Don't put anything over any line or cable in
>clear text.  Don't let anybody, ever, get into the system with
>"privileged" access.

Don't walk down the street at night.
Don't answer your door.
Don't answer your phone.
Lock up your daughters...

>----  Then, do as Woz suggests, and pay the
>brightest and best to find holes in the defenses.  And pay rewards
>for being a hacker and learning the next generation of techniques to
>cause problems.  ----  Then DO SOMETHING about the problems, don't let
>another 12 years or so go by with heads buryed.

Why do people seem to think that the advent of computers has liberated
them from moral education?  Electronic crime is still crime.  Would you
papplaud your local police picking up street gang members, and, instead of
punishing them, paying them to teach how to perform assaults?  I agree
that it is important to beef up security... but this "aren't hackers 
cute?" mentality is the MAJOR threat.  Someone who destroys a financial
record should be jailed for robbery.  It's THAT simple.  I don't care
if your tool is a jimmy or a keyboard.  Scum is scum, no matter how
high-tech the pond it's floating atop.
-- 
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