"Hackers"-- brief review and anecdote...

[Rev. Mark Grant]

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