Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 15:57:28 12/22/97
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On December 20, 1997 at 20:20:58, Bruce Moreland wrote: >I wasn't trying to quote you, I was trying to emphasize a word. > >I think in his excitement to post something that not everyone knew yet, >KK posted a crack. > >I don't think this is ethical, and perhaps it is not legal either. > >Anyone know what happens to a journalist who publishes instructions >about how to get into someone's car? Is this illegal, just a no-no, or >a perfectly fine thing to do? To expose bad design by car manufacturors it seems arguably ok. To encourage it, so as then to steal the radio, possibly illegal. To encourage it, targeted on a specific individual, almost certainly illegal. To post a mechanism of clicking on a screen to enable access to a previously hidden capability that was already there, provided (by mistake) by the author - very common, usual, magazines do it all the time with entertainment software. Sorry, but its silly author, not bad KK. Chris Whittington > >bruce
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