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Grex Scruples Item 16: The files
Entered by carson on Wed Jun 29 06:34:40 UTC 1994:

(while snooping through another user's directory, you find that the files
in that directory aren't protected! You can change them any way you want to!)

(do you?)

22 responses total.

#1 of 22 by scg on Wed Jun 29 06:40:36 1994:

No, and I wouldn't want anybody who found files like that in my directory
to change them either.

#2 of 22 by canis on Wed Jun 29 17:17:10 1994:

no, I wouldn't

#3 of 22 by omni on Wed Jun 29 19:32:25 1994:

no

#4 of 22 by dang on Wed Jun 29 21:28:27 1994:

no, and i'd tell the person, so they could fix it.

#5 of 22 by popcorn on Fri Jul 1 12:24:26 1994:

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#6 of 22 by swa on Sat Jul 2 19:33:15 1994:

Ditto again.

#7 of 22 by aruba on Sun Jul 3 00:55:01 1994:

I once found that a friend had left his directory open, so I put a file
in it that he couldn't erase (since it was owned by me) whose name was
something like "GENE-IS-A-WEENIE".  I got in BIG trouble, because he
called the director of the computer center and complained.  So I won't
do it again, at least not to someone with so small a sense of humor.

#8 of 22 by cicero on Sun Jul 3 15:29:18 1994:

no

#9 of 22 by carson on Wed Jul 6 03:57:58 1994:

(hell yes! I'd see how much damage I could do, and then I would disable
his editor, replacing it with a .bat file that prints out something like
"don't you love me the way I am?")

#10 of 22 by vishnu on Tue Jul 12 08:28:05 1994:

I wouldn't... once I did the equivalent to someone's directory
(i put a yes command in their .login file, nothingi big) but he
got awfully mad at me, and i felt pretty guilty.  I would not
do it again.

#11 of 22 by davel on Wed Jul 13 16:37:54 1994:

Not without extenuating circumstances.

#12 of 22 by turtle on Wed Jul 13 17:39:20 1994:

ditto #4.  I'd appreciate it if somebody told me, so I'd do the same fo others.

#13 of 22 by alfee on Thu Jul 14 01:35:11 1994:

No!   I wouldn't violate someone that way.  That'
s like walking through someone's unlocked front doo. I'd mail 'em and let
'em know.

#14 of 22 by y on Fri Aug 5 06:08:52 1994:

no

#15 of 22 by flem on Sun Aug 7 07:14:40 1994:

probably not...unless it were someone I knew well and I knew that they would 
take it well.  Also, I'd do neither anything permanent or anything really
embarrassing or dangerous.

#16 of 22 by bonita on Tue Nov 15 02:42:41 1994:

No, I probably wouldn't know how to do it anyway.

#17 of 22 by zook on Mon Dec 5 02:57:00 1994:

No.  Who cares what they have in their directory?  Golden rule time, too.

#18 of 22 by peacefrg on Thu Dec 8 02:34:39 1994:

I don't know how to do it anyhow. But I wouldn't if I did.

#19 of 22 by ewhisam on Wed Dec 27 23:11:35 1995:

No reciprocity rules today what goes around comes around leave them alone

#20 of 22 by diznave on Sun Nov 9 06:45:07 1997:

I would give this person a new identity.

#21 of 22 by moonowl on Tue Nov 18 14:23:29 1997:

Only with close friends in fun ways and I would let them know and thank them
vor the opportunity to pull a practical joke.

#22 of 22 by spork21 on Tue Jul 17 00:58:42 2001:

No, I would not and I hope that if anybody found my files they would respect
my right to privacy.

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