Agreed. On each point. It _is_ their network and they have the right to have the policies they choose. At the same time, calling the honor code office because somebody is port scanning is extreme. On the other hand, it may be more cost-effective for them to just have one template email that they fire off to everybody that scans ports than to investigate each "offender" individually. Either way, their objective is to stop port scanning, and it sounds like it may have worked :-)
-Brent On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 09:57, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > although i think that it is dumb... it is their network, so if they > want to restrict that... they can... but... > > their response of... > > "as a BYU student this behavior is unacceptable and if it > continues will be reported to the honor code office" > > > ...is a stupid! > > why is everything so extreme? what in the flying fig newton does port > scanning your own server have to do with the honor code office? > > why can't they simply inform you that BYU has a policy against port > scanning from on campus? > > > On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 09:39 US/Mountain, Hans Fugal wrote: > > > 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. > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
