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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.headlines
Subject: Re: Hacker Scholarship
Message-ID: <1596@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 14:43:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 22 14:43:00 1987
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In article <2318@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>They didn't go yelling about blue boxes or buying congressmen to make 
>'hurting the phone company' a criminal offense, they fixed the problem.

No, they haven't.  The problem is not that people CAN steal phone service,
but that they DO.  'Hurting' ANYONE already IS a criminal offense.  It's
just that information-age dreamers seem to feel that, if it's magnetic, 
it belongs to the world, and the burden of security is on the owner.  Well,
the burden of morality is on each of us.  Teach these kids morals, teach 
them the rights of property and privacy... then turn them loose.  If they
find that they can get somewhere they shouldn't, teach them that their first 
and only obligation is to report the holes.  Then reward the ones who do,
not because they're caught but because they know it's the right thing to do.

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