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   Message 14,611 of 14,669   
   Thomas Bruce to KP KP   
   Re: Security comments, response to <4384   
   01 Nov 22 03:34:31   
   
   From: brucethomas287@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, 14 August 2022 at 12:44:21 UTC-7, KP KP wrote:   
   > 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    
   > > --    
   > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=   
   =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-    
   > > | There is nothing in the above message that can't be explained by   
   sunspots. |    
   > > | execu!dewey Dewey Henize |    
   > > | Can you say standard disclaimer? I knew you could. Somehow... |   
   > Thanks to you.   
      
      
      
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