From: stig@netcom.com (Stig)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 01:43:09 PDT
To: Marc Horowitz <honey@citi.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: CERT: the letter from CERT to berkeley.edu admin
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To quote: Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>
> "Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> stupidity."  Without support, I think CERT is merely being stupid.
> Someone else (maybe even a government employee) is being malicious.  I
> do think cert is harming their effectiveness by doing this.  My guess
> is that they never stopped to think that someone might use them in
> this way to shut down an "unpopular" ftp site.
> 

Sounds like this thread is getting too soft on CERT:

For soda, the mail went to someone@soda....

For Julf's machine, it went to his NETWORK PROVIDER.  (This is not a
courteous move, nor was it intended to be.)

	Stig

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