On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Aaron Blosser wrote:
> >> Moral of the story, US WEST bad... NTPRIME good. :-)
> >Actually, moral is "Installing software without explicit permission bad."
>
> Hehe...no comment.
>
<snip>
> >I was overridden by management on both suing for breach of contract, and
> >reporting the incident to the police, apparently they felt the
> >application he was installing was too important.
>
> They felt Seti@Home was too important? Sheesh...well, takes all kinds. I
No, not Seti@Home.
The application he'd been contracted to do that got him the access in
the first place and which he hid the Seti client as a legal part of.
> wish US WEST would have considered the contribution they could be making
> towards number theory and distributed computing, but they were more concerned
> about the possibility of this program crashing their machines... Anyone who
> has ever worked for US WEST could attest that NTPRIME was probably the most
> well behaved piece of software on those machines... :-)
:)
>
> Aaron
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