Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site spp2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!jhull From: jhull@spp2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Must computer systems be an armed camp? Message-ID: <328@spp2.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 15:21:40 EST Article-I.D.: spp2.328 Posted: Wed Dec 19 15:21:40 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 07:43:08 EST References: <229@looking.UUCP> <2745@ncsu.UUCP> Reply-To: jhull@spp2.UUCP (Jeff Hull) Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach CA Lines: 24 Summary: In article <2745@ncsu.UUCP> mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney) writes: >>... who leaves their door unlocked might as well give their property away. > >I agree that computer crimes are wrong and that there should be laws >concerning them. But I also think that companies with sensitive computers >would be foolish to depend on laws to protect them. ... >Just as it should be a crime to break into TRW's system, it should >be criminally negligent of TRW to have inadequate security precautions. > >Jon Mauney mcnc!ncsu!mauney C.S. Dept, North Carolina State University Hear! Hear! I am willing to offer my services as an expert witness to anyone who wants to bring suit against TRW Credit or any similar organization on grounds of negligence for failing to provide adequate computer security measures. This includes banks, insurance companies, major retail organizations, e.g., Sears, Roebuck & Co., oil companies, credit card companies, e.g., VISA, and others. -- Blessed Be, jhull@spp2.UUCP Jeff Hull trwspp!spp2!jhull@trwrb.UUCP 13817 Yukon Ave. Hawthorne, CA 90250