From: Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 95 10:54:27 PDT
To: "Rev. Mark Grant" <mark@unicorn.com>
Subject: Re: "Hackers"-- brief review and anecdote...
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On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, Rev. Mark Grant wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Brian Davis wrote:
> 
> > Phill obviously presents one point of view, vigorously and well.  What do 
> > the rest of you think about a teen who, say, busts into a .edu site, 
> > plays with the files, and ultimately brings the system down entirely for 
> > 36 hours?  Fun and games?  Send him to his room, sans modem? Prosecute 
> > him?  Have a TLA hire him???
> 
> If it wasn't for ITAR the Net would already have secure encryption and
> authentication, and most such hacker attacks would be impossible (or at 
> least impractical).
> 
> 		Mark

The non-responsive answer is stricken from the record.  :-)
You mean "secure" as Netscape was secure from sameer et al.?

Apples and oranges answer to my perhaps-not-so-hypothetical question.  

Still waiting for a serious response ...

Brian