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Re: R: Re: Korea (was RE: ?)


From: jpr5 () BOS BINDVIEW COM (Jordan Ritter)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:53:59 -0500


On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Raistlin wrote:

# > You have no right to 'investigate', if by that you mean using
# > any unauthorized access to a machine that is not legally yours to
# > administrate.
#
# If a machine offers a service I have all rights to use it. This is the
# basical rule of networking.

I'm sure the CEO who dials up to the internet on his Windows 98 box,
sharing his entire harddrive (including his quarterly and annual financial
reports), ignorant of the possible transgressions, would disagree.

Is it his fault?  Yes.  Does that make it okay?  No.

Jordan Ritter
RAZOR Security
BindView Corporation


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