From: /dev/null (null@attrition.org)
To: Gary Brown (xxxx@yahoo.com)
Cc: staff@attrition.org
Subject: Re: challenge

Hi, Gary.

I'm a bit slow, so let me basically reiterate what you're asking, just to
see if I have it right.

You're unable to break into a university web site yourself, and the reason
you want it broken into in the first place is that you're either too lazy
or too incompetent to do your homework correctly yourself.  In other
words, you don't know things -- hacking, physics -- and you aren't
interested in learning them. 

You are, however, willing to solicit complete strangers to commit an
illegal act -- possibly a felony -- against a government-owned machine
across state lines on your behalf.

You, sir, are not only stupid, you're insane.

And that's the most polite way I can think of to tell you no.  I would
also strongly suggest that you give a great deal of soul-searching before
you send out more mail to people you don't know asking them to commit a
crime for you.  One of these days someone might turn you in.

Hope this helps.

/dev/null

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Gary Brown wrote:

: Hey,
: 
: I've got a challenge for you, be it minor I know, but it would be a great
: service.  Listen our physics professor has decided to go to a web based
: homework, so
: that he doesn't have to do any work.  We have to answer correctly or it
: takes points off...and you can even get negative points if you geuss too
: many times.  Is there any way you and your buddies could hack the site so I
: could get all the answers and share with the class.  Or an all access
: password to change the problems????  The address is http://hw.ph.utexas.edu
: 
: Zeus