By saying the victim bears some of the blame, you are taking some of the blame off of the perpetrator of the crime - in a way, making it 'less of a crime' or making the criminal 'less guilty'
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > I never said it was less of a crime...you keep hallucinating words. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 10:46 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Palin email hacking case - guilty! > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Eric Roberts > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >> It is well known that if you leave your account poorly >> secured it will get hacked or at least greatly increase your chances of >> getting hacked. That is the reasonable expectation. > > I will agree that for us, being in the IT field, this would be the > case. But I would disagree this is the case for the general public. > > If a password is 'weak', it does not mean that if someone uses that > password to hack an account secured by it is any less of a crime, or > that the person who's account was hacked deserved it in any way. > > I have 'bump proof' locks installed on all my doors because they are > more secure than regular locks. Does this mean if someone uses the > 'bump' technique for breaking into my neighbor's house it is any less > fo a crime than if they break into mine? > > -- > Scott Stroz > --------------- > You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can > wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris > > http://xkcd.com/386 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317240 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
