[9067] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: sleaze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rose Marie Holt)
Wed Dec 15 15:06:38 1993
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 12:04:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Rose Marie Holt <rmholt@u.washington.edu>
To: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Cc: francis@avalle.insoft.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9312151828.AA25481@expresso.bunyip.com>
Why restrict us to one solution? Sure, the bad guys are always one step
ahead of the law, the innovative ones, anyway, but that doenst mean we
give up. We can have sanitized systems for kids - to take some of the
load off the teachers and administrators and parents. The humans can
deal with the smart hackers; let system restrictions take care of the
routine stuff.
> > Of course, if you install a nice sanitized
news and email > system onto your SCHOOLnet's PC lab machines, which only
> exchanges messages with other school board machines, and
> the lab has TCP/IP capability, you're going to find out
> eventually that some smart hackers are handing out
> floppies with the needed software to allow full telnet and
> ftp. At that point they're off to the races. Sure you can
Rm Holt
