[39463] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Hackers"-- brief review and anecdote...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rev. Mark Grant)
Tue Sep 19 13:29:31 1995
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 18:15:39 +0100 (BST)
From: "Rev. Mark Grant" <mark@unicorn.com>
To: Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Brian Davis wrote:
> Phill obviously presents one point of view, vigorously and well. What do
> the rest of you think about a teen who, say, busts into a .edu site,
> plays with the files, and ultimately brings the system down entirely for
> 36 hours? Fun and games? Send him to his room, sans modem? Prosecute
> him? Have a TLA hire him???
If it wasn't for ITAR the Net would already have secure encryption and
authentication, and most such hacker attacks would be impossible (or at
least impractical).
Mark
