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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: DoJ monitoring memo
- In-Reply-To: jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.191551.3424@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <JET.92Dec17165157@boxer.nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:15:51 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <JET.92Dec17165157@boxer.nas.nasa.gov>, jet@boxer (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
- >Keep in mind, folks, that the DoJ sent that to *government* sites,
- >concerning *federal* computers.
-
- Yes, and CERT expanded the scope and recommended the banner to be put
- on _all_ systems.
-
- >Some folks here at NASA claim that the DoJ message also gives them
- >blanket coverage with regards to individuals monitoring general system
- >usage. ie: logging the amount of times xterm is executed w/o letting
- >the user know what you're doing *could* be seen as an unauthorized
- >wiretap. Yeesh.
-
- Blanket coverage is also given for logging every keystroke the user
- types into the xterm, it seems.
-
- //Jyrki
-