Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 14:45:19 12/22/97
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On December 22, 1997 at 00:35:03, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On December 21, 1997 at 23:52:14, Komputer Korner wrote: > >>Are you suggesting that I should not act like a journalist when I >>receive a tip that had already been published? What am I supposed to >>do, pretend that the workaround didn't exist when I knew that others had >> discovered it? > >I am not a journalist, I have not taken journalism classes. If anyone >out there knows more and wants to respond to this and set either or both >of us straight, please do. > >The impression I have is that a journalist reports news. And the fact >that someone has left their back door unlocked does not seem to me to be >news. Reporting this information simply provides an invitation to >steal, it is very likely that no good use will be made of the >information. Interesting analogy. Report back door unlocked - invitation to go in and remove property, take it away, deprive the owner of it, fair enough - this is not cool to report. But the software is a different case, no? Decade 2 has already transferred the property. It's there in its bits and bytes already. Its then just a case of accessing the bits and bytes, decade 2 has a mechanism for this, this mechanism got reported. Seems different to me. Chris Whittington > >Regardless of the legality of reporting such information, the ethics of >reporting it seem clear, don't they? > >bruce
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