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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Fun things to do to RTM (was: Internet worm)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.184229.22277@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 18:42:29 GMT
- References: <1992Dec3.072029.28238@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <8oR0uB8w165w@bluemoon.use.com> <1992Dec7.160649.3039@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec8.160732.13055@eff.org> <1992Dec11.160608.29674@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1gffv7INNb91@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
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- In <1gffv7INNb91@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
-
- >fred j mccall writes:
- >|> In <1992Dec8.160732.13055@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
- >|>
- >|> >In article <1992Dec7.160649.3039@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >|>
- >|> >>No, I think he's telling you that his lack of judgement in releasing
- >|> >>it in the first place indicates that he is not to be trusted in a
- >|> >>position from which he could decide to do some other 'harmless' thing.
- >|>
- >|> >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.
-
- >fred, i wanted to ask you the same question. i saw mike had asked it and
- >reckoned that you would answer him. can you elaborate?
-
- Seems obvious, Peter. The 'tool' central to the crime is the
- computer. Simply don't allow him to work with them for a while. I'm
- curious as to just how many people really don't 'get' this; that
- think, as Mike would have us believe, that we're talking about not
- letting him go to graduate school or something equally silly. Of
- course, if he was working on a C.S. degree, he might have a few
- problems attending for a while, if not programming on computers was
- part of his probation.
-
- --
- "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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