dave@murphy.UUCP (Dave Cornutt) (06/30/86)
Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site houligan.UUCP Path: houligan!novavax!ucf-cs!peora!codas!akguc!akgua!gatech!seismo!harvard!husc6!panda!genrad!decvax!wanginst!masscomp!alang From: alang@masscomp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news,net.politics,net.legal Subject: Re: Towards making hosts and their admin free from a criminal offence Message-ID: <1037@masscomp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 15:15:12 EDT Article-I.D.: masscomp.1037 Posted: Thu Jun 19 15:15:12 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jun-86 21:42:14 EDT References: <611@bu-cs.UUCP> <164@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <20663@styx.UUCP> <1259@mulga.OZ> <2026@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <880@frog.UUCP> <597@chalmers.UUCP> <1188@bunker.UUCP> <482@ccird1.UUCP> Reply-To: alang@masscomp.UUCP (Alan Groupe) Distribution: net Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization Lines: 4 Xref: peora net.news:2837 net.politics:12592 net.legal:2930 In article <1037@masscomp.UUCP>, alang@masscomp.UUCP (Alan Groupe) writes: >Of course, a number of computer bulletin boards have been shut down (and >machines confiscated?) because of certain postings. I was under the impression that these cases had to do with the posting of thinks like machine passwords and credit card numbers, and that it was done with the knowledge and consent of the owner. Usually this was a BB populated with teenage password-breakers. I should hope that posters to USENET have more maturity than this, and that, if anything of this ilk should turn up, the sysadmins would take steps to remove it immediately. As long as they do, SA's should be free from prosecution. --- Arthur shone his flashlight on Prak's face. "We thought," he said, "that you were meant to be telling the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth." "Oh, that," said Prak, "yeah, I was. I finished. There's not nearly as much of it as people imagine." Dave Cornutt, Gould Computer Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL UUCP: ...!sun!gould!dcornutt or ...!ucf-cs!novavax!houligan!dcornutt ARPA: wait a minute, I've almost got it... "The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of my employer, not necessarily mine, and probably not necessary."