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Re: Perl Co-inventor Convicted
markm@bogart.cse.ogi.edu (Mark Morrissey) writes:
>well, no. it's not illegal if you get your management to give
>you written authorization to perform these activities. The
>authorization can be vague enough to cover most eventualities.
>At least all the authorizations that I have been give were
>written this way. btw, I never had any problems getting this
>type of permission from my management and this includes the
>same group where Randal was working when all this started.
Ah, but are such vague autorisations worth anything if the management
decides that what you did (under what you thought was that
authorisation) does not fall thereunder. EG, you run Crack" to see if
someone is using a bad password, and discover the president is using a
stupid password. They then claim that you were not authorised to try to
crack passwords. Is your "vague authoriseation: worth anything then?
>I don't think that it will stop real security professionals.
Let us hope not, but the question is whether doing thier job opens them
to criminal sanctions.
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Bill Unruh
unruh@physics.ubc.ca
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