Posted by Pat Cho on July 16, 2001, at 23:45:32
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20010714/msgs/70358.html
This is not the first time a person has posted on this site a long list of electronic journals with user names and passwords. In some cases publication of user names with passwords can be a crime. If the passwords were issued to SA4M, then their publication might be a civilly or criminally actionable violation of user agreements with the listed publications. If the user names are those of somebody else, then the post seems to be a case of identity theft, which violates federal laws and the laws of whatever state where the post was made.
There have also been repeated postings on this site of copyrighted materials. Perhaps there needs to be a notice in the FAQ encouraging users to recognize the property rights of other publications.
While SA4M apparently meant well by posting this information, it puts the site at risk. Somebody will notify the listed journals that their security has been breached and they might decide to take action against dr-bob.org.
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I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it... --Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184, Justice Potter Stewart, 1964
poster:Pat Cho
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