Re: Administrator abuse

John Browning wrote:


Specious argument which amounts to blaming the victim.


When the "victim" voluntarily grants permission, certainly.


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."


Using your logic, anyone you choose to trust in life can inflict any damage on you they please (even bodily) since you should have known better than to trust them.


No, that doesn't follow, at all. There's no evidence that any damage has been done.


So you let someone into your house that you had good cause to believe was trustworthy - and he/she robs you. Well it's your fault so don't go crying to the law, is that your position?


The commission of a crime (theft) is an entirely different matter; naturally, one would report such to the authorities and expect the perpetrator to be apprehended and punished. By why change the subject? Nothing the OP said indicated that any crime had been permitted, nor is there any reason to believe that any sort of malicious act took place at all.


You and most others would have the cops at your door in an instant.



For a crime certainly, but for foolishly granting administrative privileges to somewhat who didn't know how to use them? That's no ones fault but the OP's. He's now learned not to do that again.


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