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- From: sbrack@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Steven S. Brack)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.censorship
- Subject: Re: WLU sys admins search out "nasty" filenames and passwords
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.185526.9397@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 23:55:26 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.170321.22549@ms.uky.edu>
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- morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
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- : I just received a complaint last week about a
- : program named "shit". It had been placed in the background, and
- : it required several hours of runtime. I sent the owner of the pro-
- : gram a note, explaining the complaints; I also mentioned that, while
- : I didn't plan to "take any action", any further complaints would be
- : directed to him. In his reply, he apologized (he didn't realize that
- : other users could see his command names via ps) and changed the name
- : immediately.
- :
- WHat are the privacy, & collaterally, academic freedom concerns
- regarding the ability of everyone on a system to see what you are
- doing?
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