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- From: sybok@athena.mit.edu (The Rifleman)
- Subject: Re: WLU sys admins search out "nasty" filenames and passwords
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.003712.9132@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Aug13.170321.22549@ms.uky.edu> <1992Aug13.185526.9397@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:37:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.185526.9397@uoft02.utoledo.edu> sbrack@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Steven S. Brack) writes:
- >morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
- >:
- >: 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?
-
- If someone sent me mail about how they were upset I had a program
- running called, "shit," I'd tell them to goto Hell! If I offend them,
- that's their problem. (Reminds me of that scene with Eddie Murphy. Someone
- says to Eddie, "You're a Foul Mouth!!" Eddie responds, "Foul Mouth!?!
- Fuck you!")
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