While using this line, Ron did nothing malicious or wrong. He accessed his legitimate account, again that has not been called into question. It goes on to say, if would have known, he would have dropped the charges. Daniel Mitchell, System Administrator for the Mesoscale Research and Development Group at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, who ensures operations and security for computers owned by both the U.S. Government and the University of Oklahoma. This guy says the same thing, they looked identical, he had no warning, uh, did not knowingly attempt to hack or break into any system that he did not have approved access to.
System security is the responsibility of the System Administrator of that system.
Had the computer system in question been adequately configured to display a warning notice or the more common method of requiring a login and password to gain access to the system, Ron would have known that this was not a campus modem server and would not have been able to access. Any unsecured computer system or modem server has the potential of being a security concern for all System Administrators. They provide easy access. They don t feel Ron should be held responsible for the administrative errors or the lack of responsible System Administration by others. And you can go through them, they say the same thing.