david@RAND-UNIX.ARPA (David Shlapak) (08/27/85)
>Just wait until some legislator's son gets busted for password hacking, >and you'll se unprotected computer systems redefined as an ATTRACTIVE >NUSIANCE. Ask a swimming pool owner what that means. Sigh...whatever happened to "personal responsibility"? This is like the migger saying, "Now don't make me shoot you!" The watchword in society today seems to be to hold victims responsible for the ethical primitiveness of their assailants...but I guess this isn't net.morals.. --- das PS-- Just a note...the papers out here reported last week that the 19-year old who broke into (among others) my company's computers using his C-64 is going to spend 90 days in the slammer undergoing "psychiatric evaluation." Finally, a victory for common sense!