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Mark Landin <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Landin <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:58:26 GMT
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In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] says...
>

>At a seminar on security about a year or so ago, the speaker mentioned
>that, in a (then) recent computer hacker lawsuit, the hacker was ACQUITTED
>because, on the organization's computer, the word "Welcome" appeared in
>the system's welcome message. That might be stretching things a bit from
>our standpoint, yet that is exactly how the judge viewed it. So since we
>don't want to find ourselves in the same position as the lawsuit's
>organization, we've removed 'WELCOME' from all of our machines. Our
>"welcome message" says simply:
>
>    ******************************************
>    *                                        *
>    *   Kansas City, Kansas Public Library   *
>    *                                        *
>    ******************************************
>
>

I wonder, then, how they would interpret the word "Public" in your banner as
well.
--
Mark Landin
T. D. Williamson, Inc.
UNIX Sys. Admin

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