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From: netnews@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Robert Sklar)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Getting Even
Message-ID: <1636@pikes.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 7 Nov 88 05:57:30 GMT
References: <367@execu.UUCP> <265@acheron.UUCP>
Reply-To: netnews@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Usenet News)
Organization: University of Colorado, Denver
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In article <265@acheron.UUCP> clarke@acheron.UUCP (Ed Clarke) writes:
>From article <367@execu.UUCP>, by dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize):
>> On the next area of consideration, who's gonna get hold of the bastard
>> that caused this and beat the shit out of him?  Having a daddy that's a 
>
>That may not be necessary.  Would you hire someone with the poor
>judgement to deliberately screw with federal computers?  Would you
>give such a person a news feed?  Assuming he beats the charges, he
>may have a tough time finding work - even with his expensive CompSci
>degree.
>
>Come to think of it, is ??? university liable for the damage one of 
>their students has done to the arpa net?  Can they be sued to recover 
>the cost of the computer time used by the worm?  Frankly, I hope that
>this is not the case - but it's something to think about when this
>persons resume comes across your desk.

Fist off, I want to state that I have no bad feeling for the guy who created
the virus, as we call it.  This has been confirmed as an experiment by a
computer student that "accidently" went crazy and spread.  Not only that,
but said individual also owned up to the fact that he did it.  I think that
if I was making the decision to hire someone, I would want someone as smart
as that on my team.  It's things like this which make us sit up and take
notice that maybe everything is not as easy as we think.

Furthermore, If this individual wanted to cause great damage to other machines
it would have been done.  The fact that he created an experiment that was
non distructive and even cleaned up after itself shows true realization of 
the potential for distruction.

In conclusion, it is not anyones place to begin making judgements prior to
having all the facts in a case like this.  Think about it!



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