Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: hackers Message-ID: <6611@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 10:53:24 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6611 Posted: Mon Dec 17 10:53:24 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 07:05:41 EST References: <361@wxlvax.UUCP> <2191@randvax.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 21 > "Hacking" of that sort IS A CRIME, and should be punished. I worked long > and hard to attain the sort of financial responsibility I enjoy today, and > the thought of some punk taking advantage of my efforts to his own benefit > fills me with the urge to kill... > > This is not a "witch-hunt." These people are irresponsible jerks, and they're > doing REAL damage to REAL people, and I'm really sick of self-serving apologia > like the above. Computer crime is real, it's dangerous, and when the > creeps who perpetrate it are caught, they should be punished. > > --- das STOP STOP STOP STOP Hacking is not a crime! Nowhere in the original messages did it say that the young hacker was doing anything he shouldn't do. Learning all kinds of obscure things about computers, connecting to public bulletin boards, hanging out with other hackers, is not a crime. -Ron