debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) (05/16/84)
> In many cases there will be clear indications of what the > intent was. If no such clear indications exist, well that's > what we pay judges for. While intent is one of the factors taken into account by courts in sentencing, the problem is much harder for computer break-ins. Once a person has gained unauthorized access to a system, it'd probably be impossible to say, later, which files he'd looked at: and the files read might very well be the only thing distinguishing the "doing-it-for-fun" person from the one snooping with malicious intent. -- Saumya Debray, SUNY at Stony Brook uucp: {cbosgd, decvax, ihnp4, mcvax, cmcl2}!philabs \ {amd70, akgua, decwrl, utzoo}!allegra > !sbcs!debray {teklabs, hp-pcd, metheus}!ogcvax / CSNet: debray@suny-sbcs@CSNet-Relay