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...fundamental progress of computer technology demands experimentation, and has required it for decades. Punishing a young man for pursuing a harmless prank that has been accepted and encouraged by the entire system should be a matter of debate--not of closing one's eyes and unthinkingly invoking inadequate laws...
Because the virus was intentionally released solate at night, Stoll isn't sure that the virus wasreally meant as a harmless prank...
...typically inventive and nettlesome prank devised by Morris was a program that automatically sent computer users into an adventure game if they made typing errors while trying to enter an electronic mail system, friends said...
Confronted by the Customs agents in Tampa last week, one of the financiers could not believe at first that the agents were serious. Taking the arrest routine for a stag-party prank, he began to laugh as the cuffs snapped closed, and he shouted, "All right! Let's party...
Andrea Swift, food service supervisor at the college dining halls, said Dining Services had the gate installed to protect the dining hall and the objects inside--including paintings, tables, and the chairs that were all moved to the second floor during a prank last week...