[66172] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet law
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom (UnitedLayer))
Tue Dec 30 15:46:32 2003
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:45:09 -0800 (PST)
From: "Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@unitedlayer.com>
To: Richard Irving <rirving@onecall.net>
Cc: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>, John Obi <dalnetuzer@yahoo.com>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3FF1E2E1.9040403@onecall.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Richard Irving wrote:
> Worse still, as the US found (prior to law changes, post Darpa years),
> prosecuting Script Kiddies is counter productive.. you take the
> brightest most inquisitive minds of our time, and ruin their future...
I'm not sure I'd say that the skript kiddies arrested were the "brightest
minds".
I believe the brighter minds may have had a brush with the law, and
then gotten out of it.