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John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Thu Feb 15 01:56:51 PST 1996
The Wash Post today has front page "Specialists Say Message
Spotlights Issues of Power, Responsibility" on an alleged
abuse of the Internet by a UMD student (and member of the
Utopian Anarchist Party) who posted a message accusing a
mother of mistreating a daughter, and asking readers to
telephone the mother to protest -- which many did, causing
mayhem in the harem.
Stiff-necks say that the incident demonstrates the
uncontrolled nature of the Net. "Computer experts said lack
of accountability in Internet communication could expand
with the use of anonymous remailers." Easy e-mail forgery
is noted.
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