Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: No RTM trial?
Message-ID: <1988Nov15.164147.18271@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <16953@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5424@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <32219@bbn.COM>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 88 16:41:47 GMT

In article <32219@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>... Think they could
>*prove* that RTMjr actually _released_ the worm [e.g., that it wasn't
>one of the sysops who logged in as "root" and su'ed to his account]?

The legal system deals with "who do we believe?" situations all the time.
I doubt that there would be any great problem, especially since (as I
understand it) RTMjr has admitted he did it.
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