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[linux-security] Re: WARNING: Break-in attempts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Utt)
Tue Jun 23 01:54:40 1998
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:46:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sean Utt <sean@northwest.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>,
Shaun Hedges <shedges@shaw.wave.ca>, linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980621120648.723I-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
The reason that Randall Schwartz was prosecuted is that Intel has a lot of
money, and that gives them priveleges the rest of us do not have. I run
an ISP in the same metropolitan area where Randall lives and was
prosecuted, and have taken break-ins to the authorities, including ones
where confidential information was taken from the system, and got the same
response that the rest of you seem to be reporting.
The computer crimes law in Oregon is not available to those of us who are
not in positions of power.
The purpose of the law seems to be to give corporations more control over
their employees, and to make it appear to the general public that the
government is concerned about computer security in general.
Given that, your constitutional rights disappear at the corporate door
step, and so a constitutional challenge of the law is unlikely.
Meanwhile, the rest of us in the "real world" are on our own in this, and
our only option is increased watchfulness, coupled with greater knowledge
of security.
Sean
[mod: Context removed with authors permission. We can discuss bad
Oregon laws for ages, but lets get back to linux-security soon OK? --REW]
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