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Yes. This happened to a company I worked for in the UK in the last 1990s. We had a half rack full of NT4 machines and someone got into our kit and used it to run a pr0n FTP. They took us to court to pay up and the magistrate said we had no bill to pay and that it was a waste of court time as it wasn't intentional.

You're right about reporting a crime though even if the police don't take it seriously. A crime ref number goes a long way on its own.

Edit: we had to move our kit sharpish though as the company exercised their right to throw it on the street within 24 hours.



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Yes. There's some semantic information associated with the choice of that misspelling, though.


I assume that was a pr0n whinger?

I used that intentionally to prevent the association of HN with the other form of the word. It is polite IMHO.


With showdead on, the post reads:

> Am I right in assuming that "pr0n" is some kind of 1337, 80s hackerish misspelling of "..."

... with the ellipsis substituted to accomodate your preference. ;-)




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