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From: ajdenner@athena.mit.edu (Alexander J Denner)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Getting Even
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Date: 7 Nov 88 22:13:04 GMT
References: <367@execu.UUCP> <265@acheron.UUCP>
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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.


Yes!!  He must be quite bright.

I do not condone what he did, but he could have made things a whole lot
worse if he had wanted to.  Imagine killing files instead of just using
CPU time.

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