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- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: [UPI] "FBI probes computer child porn at Cornell"
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:53:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.025311.19140@kithrup.COM>
- References: <9211211820.AA14627@crocus.cit.cornell.edu> <1992Nov21.184453.4548@eff.org> <Nov.22.20.51.11.1992.20989@inferno.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Nov.22.20.51.11.1992.20989@inferno.rutgers.edu> gaynor@inferno.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes:
- >THE PERSECUTION OF MORRIS WAS UNJUSTIFIED (and I _hate_ using all-caps for
- >emphasis). It was his graduate project in computer risks and security. Given
- >the worm's tenacity, the likelihood of its accidental release is high enough to
- >believe that its release _was_ accidental. Regardless, it did nothing more
- >than propagate itself. Many consider his worm a good thing.
-
- Many consider it a criminal act. I do not know anyone of the thousands of
- people whose machines were brought to a standstill who considers the
- Internet Worm to have been "a good thing." In addition, there was little to
- nothing accidental about the worm; it was not a graduate project (no advisor
- would have permitted it, except under the strictest of controls, none of
- which were present in the worm); and there is reason to believe that its
- release was *not* accidental.
-
- What Morris did was unjustified, and the fact that he got away with nothing
- but a slap on the wrist is disgusting; I still think everyone affected
- should have filed a civil suit as well as criminal charges.
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "Time and space is a bitch!"
- sef@kithrup.COM | -- Gooshie (Dennis Wolfberg),
- -----------------+ "Quantum Leap: Killin' Time"
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
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