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- From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
- Subject: Re: QUESTION FOR DIGITAL ON OPEN SYSTEMS
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.133142.1985@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- Organization: TI/DSEG VAX Support
- References: <01GMLHJX2JCI9KOQEV@MMC.BITNET>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:31:42 GMT
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- In article <01GMLHJX2JCI9KOQEV@MMC.BITNET>, SKELTON@MMC.BITNET (Hank Skelton) writes:
- >> nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin) writes:
- >>
- >> >|> when in fact nothing malicious was done ?
- >>
- >> >You mean things like creating some accounts or setting up some nifty
- >> >public domain utilities? Like stealing cycles and disk space on a machine
- >> >beloning to someone else?
- >>
- >> Oh please!
- >>
- >> While I don't agree with what they did, talk about "stealing cycles"
- >> on the machine is pretty rediculous in most cases. Unless they were
- >> trying to run a slowdown/CPU hogger program at a high priority, they
- >> probably would have stolen more cycles downloading those PD graphics.
- >>
- >> This is a *long* way from malicious!
- >>
- >> -BarryB
- >
- >I'm walking home from the neighborhood bar where I've perhaps been
- >overserved, and I go into my neighbor's house by mistake. Do I wander
- >through the house rummaging through closets, writing on the walls, and
- >perhaps picking up a souvenir or two? No, I tiptoe out the door as soon
- >as possible, being careful not to slam it, hoping that nobody saw me.
- >
- >Of course my neighbor should have locked his door. But the fact that he
- >didn't doesn't mean that I can go in and do what I please. If you get
- >into my computer system by mistake I expect you to get out right away,
- >don't look and don't touch. Otherwise I'll call the cops on you as my
- >neighbor would have on me.
- >
- Here, and in the few other states I'm aware of, laws state that any use not
- explicitly authorized by the owner/controller (I control my VS, TI owns it) is
- illegal. When I was in California, a proposed law (1979) was so restrictive
- that I would have had to ask my boss for permission to delete a file. That law
- never made it.
-
- In most states, opening an unlocked door is still B&E and using a computer
- without permission is a felony.
- > Hank Skelton - Meharry Medical College
- > Computer Center, Nashville, TN 37208
- > BITNET: SKELTON@MMC 615/327-6289
- > INTERNET: SKELTON%MMC@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU
- > "That's my opinion - oughtta be yours"
- >
- >
- >
- Remember, I'm not a lawyer, consult yours before committing a crime. :-)
- --
- Dillon Pyron | The opinions expressed are those of the
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- Danny DeVito, _OPM_
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