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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Subject: Re: sysop liability/responsibility
Message-ID: <1991May21.120543.1000@eff.org>
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 12:05:43 GMT
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In article <3935@d75.UUCP> bei@rt_trace.austin.ibm.com (Bob Izenberg) writes:
>message.)
>
>>I find this
>>kind of behavior reprehensible, and what I would call entrapment.  The fact
>>that this agent had somehow stolen passwords also makes me angry.
>
>It sounds like entrapment to me as well.

Will someone explain to me why he believes that this person harassing
Knoxville BBSs was actually a government agent?  In none of these stories
has anyone actually *seen* the purported agent, gotten a name, or 
checked an ID. I think it's a little premature to lay these antics at
the door of the government.



--Mike




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