I just checked my e-mail and lo and behold -- there it was, that noorious
announcement that supposedly john@superstore.com was erasing my hard drive.
So I wrote him back and expressed my condolences to him for having nothing
worthwhile to do in life. In this case contempt may turn out our best weapon.
I must say that banning AOL-subscriber access to law-lib or making access to
law-lib more difficult would not get to the heart of the problem.
I do not think that AOL should be held "morally responsible" for having ended
up as a "medium" for that stupidity which alarmed a great many of us in
cyberspace. I would be like holding a bank responsible for having technically
allowed access to its building to machine-gun-armed robbers if all
bank-operated security mechanisms were properly in place but still surprised,
bypassed, or fooled.
However, this incident does raise the very valid & worthwhile question
regarding feasibility of appropriate mechanisms for adequate protection of
computing machinery & data.
Ciao,
Antje
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