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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Hacker Scholarship
Message-ID: <1016@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 05:33:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: van-bc.1016
Posted: Tue Jul 14 05:33:43 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jul-87 04:50:14 EDT
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Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <1139@codas.ATT.COM> dlm@codas.ATT.COM (Don_L_Million) writes:
>OK, as long as you're hacking away on your own machine, I have nothing
>but respect for your ingenuity.  As soon as you intentionally break into
>someone else's machine YOU ARE A CRIMINAL!  I don't care whether you damage
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I would be interested in knowing the specific CRIMINAL laws that have
been violated.

Regardess of your personal value system, an action can only be CRIMINAL in
nature if it contravenes a specific statute, defining it to be a CRIMINAL
action.

I totally agree that intentionally breaking into someone else's machine is a
repulsive, and vile thing, that SHOULD be a CRIMINAL action if it isn't
already.



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