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By EUGENE McCarthy Rappahannock News (iuest C olumnist
The story of how a pair of youthful computer experts broke into the Los Alamos National Laboratory computer (which by report contains sensitive defense information) and continuing stories of how money or title to it and information of sensitive and personal character is being illegally or extra-legally taken from computers have stirred a rash of commentary.
Some commentators are relieved to know that it is possible to find out what the government is up to, whether in the field of nuclear arms or in its handling of citizens’ affairs. Others, who favor more government security, are disturbed. Some observers agrue that there should b^ more control over the use of computers; others say that the computer is innocent and that the problem is basically a human one.
Some analyists of social behavior and guardians of the common good say that the kids who broke into the major computer systems should be punished as an example. But at least one such guardian says that they should be rewarded for demonstrating that the people * can watch the watchers and find out what the government or big business and financial institutions know about the people. Joseph Weizenbaum, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has contributed the philosophical comment that “there is no such thing as absolute safety,” not in or outside the computers.
He is right. But if one looks for relative security and privacy, or for what is left of either, there is evidence that both are still to be found and enjoyed in Rappahannock County. It is
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