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 web site on the campus or department servers).
Portscanning is not allowed by employees or students, unless you are part of computing services. Of course the employees in computing services are pretty useless as it is; overpaid, and unknowledgeable and no backbone when enforcing risky matters. - Chris On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:30:53 -0500 (EST), vertigo wrote: >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 >> >> >
