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Story: The NASA hacker: Scapegoat or public enemy?

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Posted by: Arthur B. (Friday 15 July 2005, 12:27 AM)

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Accussing someone else of something wrong while you yourself are also in the wrong is the usual defense of those that don't seek to learn from their mistakes. Scape goat, cover up, etc comes to mind.

As such delivering the whistle blower into the hands of those that should really be accussed seems mighty counter productive to me. If they seek to learn they should ask. Ask nicely. If however they seek a means to satisfy their frustrations then they should not be rewarded in such.

Because the real question is still: how could anyone (maybe still?) come so far for so long? What was it that gave them that false sense of security anyhow? And might others be at risk of the same danger? How are things done at high security installations within the EU? Similiair to the US perhaps? If so we have a situation in need of some serious decision making.

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