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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Fun things to do to RTM (was: Internet worm)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.183858.22132@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec7.160649.3039@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec8.160732.13055@eff.org> <1992Dec11.160608.29674@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec13.055137.15759@eff.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:38:58 GMT
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- In <1992Dec13.055137.15759@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec11.160608.29674@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
-
- >>>What position, specifically, is that? Graduate student?
- >>
- >>I know you're not this stupid, Mike, so I have to assume that this is
- >>a deliberate 'cute but obfuscatory' tactic. Color me unimpressed.
- >>And unconvinced.
-
- >It looks very much as if you are avoiding the question. If the issue
- >is whether Morris should be barred from the computer industry, it should
- >be noted that he was not a part of it at the time of the Internet Worm.
-
- The point is that if someone is convicted of deliberate vehicular
- homicide, the obvious situation is 'driving a vehicle', whether they
- are a professional driver or not.
-
- This is obvious to anyone with a modicum of sense, and pointing that
- out is hardly 'avoiding the question'. Whether Morris was part of
- "the computer industry" isn't relevant. I have no problem with him
- working in the computer industry -- as long as what he does has
- nothing to do with doing anything on computers. I would also hardly
- make this a lifetime ban, but I think a certain amount of "think about
- it" time might be both useful and constructive in this kind of case.
-
- >I strongly suggest, by the way, that folks interested in the Iernet
- >Worm case read Hafner and Markoff's book CYBERPUNK, and Peter Denning's
- >COMPUTERS UNDER ATTACK. It is difficult for those with actual knowledge
- >about the case to obsess on punishing Morris.
-
- Ah, once more anyone who disagrees gets the unfavorable
- characterization. It's "obsess" this time.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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