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Subject: Re: University policies re: portscanning
At the univeristy where I work, (NO I AM NOT in the computing services
department)
they have a pretty strict AUP as far as what IP services can or cannot be
run on the
campus backbone, and also that no-user shall profit from the availability
At the univeristy where I work, (NO I AM NOT in the computing services department)
they have a pretty strict AUP as far as what IP services can or cannot be run on the
campus backbone, and also that no-user shall profit from the availability of the
campus backbone (don't put your home business
Tohru,
Frankly, I would say it is a gross invasion of privacy. I was harrassed at college by
the sysadmins
after two of them asked me to do a panetration test on an NT4 box. They read my
email, all of my
schoolwork, monitored when I logged in and what I did, the whole 9 yards. Guess what?
I observed this type of probing when I lived on campus a year ago during
grad school at the University of Texas at Austin. This link
http://www3.utsystem.edu/itmc/IT100699.htm has meeting minutes detailing
Bill Bard (Top UT Network guy) saying periodic scanning s a good thing
(tm).
On the
