wayner@fulla.cs.cornell.edu (Pete) (10/08/90)
You might want to know something about the situation at Cornell brought about by the Robert Morris fallout. Graduate students who want to use the computer science department's systems (i.e. do their work and get a degree) are required to sign a form giving the system administrators the right to read personal files as "part of their normal, daily activity." Ostensibly this is to help us if we ever screw up our .login files on the UNIX boxes, but it is not difficult to see that it might have arisen from the difficulty of tracking down Morris's virus. The exclusionary rule might have reared its head in the trial and that would have been a mess for the prosecution. Oh, the rule also forbids the use of encryption technology. --Peter Wayner (wayner@cs.cornell.edu) Peter Wayner Department of Computer Science Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY 14850 EMail:wayner@cs.cornell.edu Office: 607-255-9202 or 255-1008 Home: 116 Oak Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-277-6678
karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) (10/08/90)
In article <46799@cornell.UUCP> wayner@fulla.cs.cornell.edu (Pete) writes: >Graduate students ... are required to sign a form giving >the system administrators the right to read personal files as "part of >their normal, daily activity." Ostensibly this is to help us if >we ever screw up our .login files on the UNIX boxes, but ... >Oh, the rule also forbids the use of encryption technology. If the rule was only so they can be allowed to help you if your .login file was screwed up, there would be no prohibition on encryption. -- -- uunet!sugar!karl -- Usenet access: (713) 438-5018