Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!lloyd!kent
From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Possible Fines for Virus Perpetrator
Keywords: Morris, virus, internet
Message-ID: <263@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 16 Nov 88 18:19:52 GMT
References: <456@l5comp.UUCP> <440@occrsh.ATT.COM> <312@pte.UUCP> <88Nov14.153720est.7112@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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In article <88Nov14.153720est.7112@neat.ai.toronto.edu> bradb@ai.toronto.edu (Brad Brown) writes:
>
>And perhaps next time I parked I'd me more careful not to leave the
>door unlocked -- it would have been my fault if the person who used
>my car as a bedroom had taken the stereo instead...

Have we come to the point that locking my car is not my decision but
my obligation?  I grew up in a suburb of Minneapolis where we never
locked our car (except maybe on Halloween), and I think my parents
still don't--when at the store I mean, they certainly don't lock the
car when it is parked at their house.

I always liked not fighting with so many keys and have always thought
it a virtue that people should be proud of, but to read the above
comment one would think all those people are being immoral to have
arrived at a condition where things are fairly safe.  

I, for one, am not ready to use Boston (where I am now) as an example
of proper behavior that should be imposed upon the rest of the world.
In Boston I always lock my car, and I think that aspect of Boston is a
shame, not a good example for how the world _should_ be.

To be extreme, I _could_ wear a bullet proof vest, but if I don't, and
I get shot, does it become MY fault?

In talking about the internet worm let's not blame the victim.  It is
the people who unleash worms and viruses who are at fault.  Period.

Kent Borg
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