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   Message 14,583 of 14,669   
   KP KP to Dewey Henize   
   Re: Security comments, response to <4384   
   14 Aug 22 12:44:20   
   
   From: jungletrain@outlook.com   
      
   On Monday, November 28, 1988 at 10:14:49 AM UTC-8, Dewey Henize wrote:   
   > I have tried several times to mail this to sswat, but it appears it isn't   
   > possible to get mail from here to there. My apologies in advance to those   
   > that are bored with the subject, please feel free to hit 'n' now. Following   
   > is the text of a letter I attempted several times to get to him.   
   > -------------------   
   >    
   > Allow me to congratulate you, please, on an EXCELLENT article. You hit a    
   > great many points, and I felt you handled them particularly well. Thank   
   > you.   
   > May I please note, as the one who first suggested that Morris (or whoever   
   > the clown releasing the worm was) have the [I believe my words were] shit   
   > beat out of him, that I DO NOT and never did advocate that as a simple and   
   > final solution. It has been portrayed that way, and a great deal of the   
   > other comments since have seemed to take the dichotomous stands you describe,   
   > yet I feel and believe most other serious people feel that a combination   
   > of solutions are necessary. I still feel that a message should be sent that   
   > its not ok to trash other peoples property to prove you can. I also feel   
   > that each site has responsibilities to do the best that they are capable of   
   > doing to limit unauthorized access; and I feel that in that regard the   
   > current world we live in is being let down by many, if not all of the   
   > vendors. And so on.   
   > I do like the idea of 'licensed' crackers. This would imply a bit of real   
   > expertise AND accountability. I've seen a lot posted of late that would   
   > imply all too many people are ready to set themselves up as the judge of   
   > my systems and rampage and destroy just to 'make me aware it can be done'.   
   > Well, I'm aware already, and I would welcome constructive criticisms from   
   > any reasonable sources, as I always have. Or, heck, I'd be more than    
   > glad to have free labor do much of the grunt work I do already in my   
   > usual 70+ hour week. I don't have that luxury, though... Yet, if I knew   
   > that people who were responsible and mature (regardless of calendar age)   
   > were making a best effort to detect areas that I could be reasonably asked   
   > to handle and would let me know the results in ways that didn't trash   
   > everything, I'd be extremely supportive.   
   > Anyway, I've taken enough of your time. Thanks for reading this far. Again,   
   > let me thank you for a really good article with a lot of good information   
   > in it. I hope it's recieved as well and widespread as it should be.   
   > Dewey Henize   
   > Execucom Systems Corp   
   > 512-346-4980   
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   > | There is nothing in the above message that can't be explained by sunspots.   
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   > | execu!dewey Dewey Henize |   
   > | Can you say standard disclaimer? I knew you could. Somehow... |   
   Thanks to you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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