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Re: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime - Apology

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From: mo... Robert Mokry
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 16:09
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In article <1990Aug29....@ctr.columbia.edu> mo...@ctr.columbia.edu (Robert Mokry) writes:
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>The proper character to type to a mistaken login is ^C, which means that 
>you have made a mistake and you want to discard everything.  However, if you 
>try this, you will find that nothing seems to happen.  And that is because
>the appropriate authorities have been notified at that point, and you should
>just sit back and not move and wait for them to take you away.

After talking to a few people who said they were lawyers (or maybe
they said "liars"; I didn't hear them too clearly), I believe that the
only legally-correct response that you can give to the mistaken login
prompt is to type "give up, exit, stop, terminate," which is the
standard exit string.  After typing this to the login prompt, you will
have to type it to the password prompt also, and if it is a
legally-correct correct computer, it will let you go without any legal
consequences.  Instead of typing the entire string, most people like
to use its acronym.  If that acronym doesn't work, feel free to try others.
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From: mo...@ctr.columbia.edu (Robert Mokry)
Newsgroups: alt.security,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime - Apology
Keywords: ^D,^Z,^C
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.160940.6012@ctr.columbia.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 16:09:40 GMT
References: <1990Aug28.182451.11662@ctr.columbia.edu> <1990Aug29.054248.21632@funet.fi> <1990Aug29.155638.5910@ctr.columbia.edu>
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