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- From: bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles)
- Subject: Re: WLU sys admins search out "nasty" filenames and passwords
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.004828.3867@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration / Boulder Labs
- References: <1992Aug13.170321.22549@ms.uky.edu> <1992Aug13.185526.9397@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:48:28 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:
- >: 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?
-
- Aren't you taking this to extremes?
-
- While I agree that activity logs shouldn't be kept on academic or open
- commerical systems (e.g., Colorado SuperNet), if the system is running
- sluggishly somebody (possibly I) has the rights to run a 'ps' or its
- equivalent to find out what is hogging CPU cycles. If I see a program
- named 'shit' I'll probably be pretty pissed. (As in, "this program
- ain't doing 'shit.'")
-
- Likewise, you may consider a printout with a banner like KillThePrez
- a cute joke, but don't expect no response if you print it a few days
- before a presidential visit and leave it in the printer hopper.
-
- At the same time, consider the people who take filenames seriously....
- I can just imagine their response to some of the files in my academic
- account: "satan," "satan1," etc. (They contain Usenet articles
- debunking claims of satanic conspiracies).
-
-
- Bear Giles
- bear@fsl.noaa.gov
-