Re: Administrator abuse


"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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John Browning wrote:


Specious argument which amounts to blaming the victim.


When the "victim" voluntarily grants permission, certainly.


The victim did not grant permission to change the password, only permission
to use the password.

This is a common misconception on the part of 13-year-old hacker wannabees.
(You are not one, of course.) Possession of a password is not the same as
actually having people's permission to do *everything* the password permits,
just as possession of a car key is not permission to do anything and
everything with the car, even changing the locks.


A person of trust is not allowed to victimize you anymore than a perfect
stranger is.


How was the OP victimised? Someone else used his computer with his
permission, and now he doesn't know the admin password. There's nothing
to indicate any sort of causual link between the two events. For all we
know, the OP simply forgot the password, is too ashamed to admit his
absent-mindedness, and chose the visitor as "scapegoat for a day."

Ah, now you are arguing a different point. We have no evidence that the
situation is as you describe, and that is not the situation we were
discussing.



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