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Article #4050Re: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime - Apology
From: tn... Tom Neff
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 1990 02:52
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 1990 02:52
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In article <YDK...@xds13.ferranti.com> pe...@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >How about this scenario... you're told that there's a great MUD at >[ww.xx.yy.zz], but when you telnet it it's obviously some bozo IBM >mainframe. Is that a felony? That depends on what happens AFTER you find out it's some bozo IBM mainframe. If you log out immediately, it would be hard to demonstrate any intent to misuse or steal. But if you sat there are spent an hour or two trying to crack the system or otherwise mess with it, the owner would have a beef. And if the IBM system in question was the 19th of 42 such systems you "just happened" to access in that night's session... then you might expect a knock on the door. Shades of Cuckoo's Egg...
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: alt.security,alt.folklore.computers,comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime - Apology Message-ID: <15814@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Date: 31 Aug 90 02:52:16 GMT References: <1990Aug27.194144.10910@cbnewsl.att.com> <1990Aug28.161459.11497@ctr.columbia.edu> <YDK5+.@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Followup-To: alt.security Lines: 14 Posted: Fri Aug 31 03:52:16 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit