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 told the dean and almost got one of the pricks fired. (Of course having a friend who just happened to be an attorney helped a bit too.) F*!k the AUL, and f*!k all the university sysadmins who think they can bully students around because they've frightened the adminsitration into accepting some paranoid delusion of computer geeks. Get a bunch of people together and complain. Remember, you're paying them, not the other way round.
<grrr> vertigo On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tohru Watanabe wrote: > Hello, > > I am a graduate student living on-campus at a University. I recently > noticed that Snort has been detecting portscans of my computer from the > Academic Computing folks. I've seen Syn scans, Xmas scans, UDP scans, and > Fin Scans. I told my friends living on-campus and was told that they've > been portscanned by the AC people several times as well. > We abide by the AUP so I'm wondering whether this is a general practice to > locate those running servers or who not abide by the AUP. I've seen > several threads from University Computing staff at other Universities and > was wondering what their policies regarding running portscans on student > computers were. Thanks in advance. > > Tohru Watanabe, CCNA > >
