AJ: "Do you know what portscanning is?" HC: "No..." AJ: "Why am I here?" HC: "Well, OIT said..." AJ: "Is my hair too long?" HC: "...it's just that..." AJ: "Did I cheat on a test? Is my belly-button showing?" HC: "Well, you see..." AJ: "Did I make out in the Dorm lobby? Am I wearing the wrong backpack?!?"
And, well, it would go something like that. Then, of course, I would be expelled because they have that kind of power.
My wife has a friend who was merely accused of some wrongdoing. The Honor Code Office wouldn't tell her who made the accusation, had no evidence that anything ever actually happened and threatened to expel her if she didn't write a formal letter of apology for doing whatever it was they thought she did. She wouldn't write it (cause she didn't do it) so she was expelled.
Even funnier (though not as serious) my little sister was once given a hold because the Honor Code Office didn't believe that she had personally signed her ecclesiastical endorsement. That's right, it was signed with her name, but they didn't believe it was her hand doing the signing... Wow.
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.
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