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To be fair, I was paraphrasing (too lazy to look at the other message), and the true wording was "As a student of Brigham Young University this kind of behavior is not acceptable. If it continues it may result in speaking with people in the honor code office."=20 That reads a tad less threatening than my paraphrase. (At least to me it conveys that he's not personally threatening, just warning me. He's probably not the only person involved in these things) * Wade Preston Shearer [Tue, 26 Aug 2003 at 09:57 -0600] <quote> > although i think that it is dumb... it is their network, so if they=20 > want to restrict that... they can... but... >=20 > their response of... >=20 > "as a BYU student this behavior is unacceptable and if it > continues will be reported to the honor code office" >=20 >=20 > ...is a stupid! >=20 > why is everything so extreme? what in the flying fig newton does port=20 > scanning your own server have to do with the honor code office? >=20 > why can't they simply inform you that BYU has a policy against port=20 > scanning from on campus? >=20 >=20 > On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 09:39 US/Mountain, Hans Fugal wrote: >=20 > >Naturally you shouldn't be portscanning other people's computers > >anywhere, but don't even try portscanning your own off-campus server > >from on campus because BYU appears to be monitoring their logs for > >things. That's reassuring. The fact that they were two weeks late in > >contacting me about the portscan I did weakens that feeling of > >reassurance, though... > > > >When I notified them that I was just scanning my own server to verify > >the firewall they politely said 'as a BYU student this behavior is > >unacceptable and if it continues will be reported to the honor code > >office'. I suggest you just stay off the radar and avoid portscanning > >from on campus period. > > > >--=20 > > Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. > > http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg > > http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 > ><mime-attachment>____________________ > >BYU Unix Users Group > >http://uug.byu.edu/ > >___________________________________________________________________ > >List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >=20 >=20 >=20 > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group=20 > http://uug.byu.edu/=20 > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list </quote> --=20 Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 --VV4b6MQE+OnNyhkM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/S4Z4/JjozeCq1GARAkb6AKDPQS9dEaqHPFCd0014oI6bhV0sRgCfUUDE gRzGSDzG/2KAb7VKx0yn+0M= =JvZq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VV4b6MQE+OnNyhkM--
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