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Re: Exodus / Clue problems


From: "just me." <matt () camel ethereal net>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:39:04 -0800 (PST)

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, TTSG wrote:

      My big carrot stick (I'm a veggie, so I don't eat beef) is that if
the person was connected to the box (And it wasn't just a script running)
we could have done more tracing.

"We"?

If they were aware that illegal activity was taking place on that machine and
left it on the network for any reason, they would have been prosecutable as
accessories for any attacks or violations that took place while an 'analysis'
was being done.

Yes, it would have been interesting to take a look. But it would have been
business suicide for them to do so.


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