[net.general] ABC's Nightline and Software Piracy

waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) (08/25/83)

I'll introduce this topic in this group; feel free to move it
somewhere else, though.

Did anyone else besides me see Wednesday's version of ABC's Nightline?
Subjects covered were:

  o  Software Piracy
  o  Computer "break-ins" (ala Los Alamos and Wargames)
  o  Information Networks

Steve Wozniak (founder of Apple Computers) was one of the guests.
His opinion was something like.."Hey, it's mostly kids doing this
stuff.  They're not out to steal secrets, just to learn more about
computers.  If people don't want their computers broken into, they
should protect them better".

Of course, they also had to show a film clip from "War Games"...

Comments?

                         --Walt Tucker
                           Tektronix, Inc