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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: [comp.org.eff.talk] Re: Query: Can Universities limit network access &/or 'spy` on users?
- Message-ID: <BxLyqz.ILx@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 14:54:35 GMT
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.org.eff.talk
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Lines: 28
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- [A repost - Carl]
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- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Query: Can Universities limit network access &/or 'spy` on users?
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:09:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <BxCswD.LHp@ibmpcug.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov2.041052.28698@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown) writes:
- >What infuriates me is HOW WOULD THEY KNOW HOW PEOPLE ARE USING THIS STUFF?
- >The only why I see that they would know is if they are spying on student
- >activties, ie reading their mail to see if its serious or not, etc. Frankly
- >this is totally unethical, but is it illegal? I would think users would have
- >some right to privacy in their accounts from the sysadms spying on them.
-
- Nope, you have no rights whatsoever. Public telnet gateways throughout
- the world are logged and everyone who uses them should be aware of this.
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- The ostensible reason for this monitoring to to catch people hacking other
- systems, but I see no way of stopping unprincipled sysnazis from using the
- information for their own gain.
-
- G
- (If anyone knows of any *laws* that stop sysnazis monitoring
- accounts and telnet sessions, especially in Britain, please post)
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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