[39468] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Hackers"-- brief review and anecdote...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Davis)
Tue Sep 19 14:27:28 1995
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:53:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
To: "Rev. Mark Grant" <mark@unicorn.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9509191823.A881-0100000@unicorn.com>
On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, Rev. Mark Grant wrote:
> 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
The non-responsive answer is stricken from the record. :-)
You mean "secure" as Netscape was secure from sameer et al.?
Apples and oranges answer to my perhaps-not-so-hypothetical question.
Still waiting for a serious response ...
Brian
