In article <gate.ku4FRc1w165w@dxm.ernet.in>, <rishab@dxm.ernet.in> wrote:
Data crime - 'cracking', 'phreaking' etc usually reflect a total lack of responsibility on the part of _administrators_. "Officer, I left my wallet on the kerb 10 minutes ago, and now it's gone!"
Sorry for the tone (sort of), but... This sounds like typical kiddie-cracker garbage. It's more like, "Officer, I didn't know that master locks could be picked with the greatest of ease: arrest that man who picked it and took my wallet." (It is, in fact, trivial to pick Master locks -- far more trivial than to run crack on a passwd file -- yet many people still keep valuables behind them.) Security is a subject that takes time to learn, especially in this day of UNIX boxes on the Internet: it is not reasonable to expect that people should acquire an intimate understanding of how to implement secure methods to have an expectation of privacy. You can ignore that we live in a technically semi-literate (at best) society, but then you have no business talking about the world we live in. -- L. Todd Masco | "Large prime numbers imply arrest." - Previously meaningless cactus@bb.com | grammatically correct sentence. Now...