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From: honey@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (peter honeyman)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A Question Of Ethics (was: Re: A *Big* Thank You)
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Date: 9 Nov 88 05:18:15 GMT
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Steve C. Simmons writes:
>The ethical thing to do would have been to inform the local sysadm
>of the hole, and get the patch out as has been done in other recent
>(non-worm) cases.  Instead this guy chose to keep his knowledge a
>secret and "play" with it.  He's as culpable as if he'd accidently
>dropped a vial full of smallpox bacteria in a public place.

analogies aside, what's your opinion of people who now claim to have
known about the bugs for years?

	peter