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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: <1992Dec14.184824.22669@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 18:48:24 GMT
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- In <1gfh4sINNb91@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
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- >fred j mccall writes:
- >|> >I would still ask you why if someone gets busted for fraud using a telephone,
- >|> >should his phone privs be taken away?
- >|>
- >|> No, but if the fraud involves things like wiretaps and such, I'd sure
- >|> think twice about putting them into a position as a telephone
- >|> maintenanceman or operator.
-
- >robert's position was not "telephone maintenanceman or operator" or
- >any sort of computer professional. it was "graduate student." is
- >your argument that he should be kept out of graduate school? that's
- >in fact how cornell saw it; would you take that decision out of their
- >hands and cast it into law?
-
- He wasn't just "graduate student". He was graduate student in a
- particular discipline. It is the discipline and not the student bit
- of that that is germane. I would take the decision out of their hands
- to the point of saying that he wouldn't be able to study C.S. for a
- while (because he wouldn't be able to do the computer bit for a
- while).
-
- Can someone convicted of drug traficking become a doctor? Can someone
- convicted of felonious assault become a policeman (or legally buy a
- weapon) in most states? How is this so awfully different.
-
- Perhaps it would have been more appropriate to require him to pay the
- damages, including denial of service costs, caused by his 'accident'?
- I believe the law often requires this in cases of 'accident'.
-
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- "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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