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From: lyndon@nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Getting Even
Message-ID: <10520@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Date: 8 Nov 88 19:30:08 GMT
References: <367@execu.UUCP> <265@acheron.UUCP> <1636@pikes.Colorado.EDU> <5343@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
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In-reply-to: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)

In article <5343@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, spaf@cs (Gene Spafford) writes:
>
>Now, if you have such a lock on your door, and you wake up in the
>middle of the night to find that a stranger has broken into your home
>and is wandering about, bumping into things in the dark and breaking
>them, how do you react?  Do you excuse him because the lock is easy to
>circumvent?  Do you thank him because he has shown you how poor your
>locks are?  Do you think *you* should be blamed because you never got
>around to replacing the lock with a better one and installing a
>burgler alarm?

Gene, we have to (at least partially) excuse him, because WE gave
him the key! The person who needs "prosecuted" is the person who
hardwired the "wizards" password into sendmail. For accomplaces, round
up every sys admin who didn't change it from the default.

Does you car insurance cover theft of contents when you leave the
doors unlocked?