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Re: Randal Schwartz Cracking Conviction
In article <DELt5F.13Ht@austin.ibm.com> jfh@austin.ibm.com (John F. Haugh II) writes:
Given Randall's helpfulness in the past, I continue to believe that
Randall honestly and sincerely felt he was doing Intel and the users
on their systems a huge favor.
I think the larger lesson is that our little town has gotten much
bigger, the average citizen is much less friendly and altruistic, and
those how commit the future of their businesses to network security
are justifiably much more paranoid. The whole culture is changing,
and thus how people judge one another's actions is changing. We must
adjust our actions accordingly, and those who don't are likely to get
in trouble.
In the town I grew up in, people rarely took the keys out of their
cars, much less locked them. So if someone say you rooting around
inside his car, he was likely to assume that you had a legitimate
reason to be doing so. Here in Boston, if you try to be helpful and
turn off the headlights of someone who forgot, the car will most
likely be locked, and if it isn't, people will start by assuming that
you're stealing the car.
Dale
Dale Worley worley@world.std.com
--
The Internet has made the world a single neighborhood again. Now
we're finding out that a lot of our neighbors are assholes.
-- Mark Ira Kaufman
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