Feel lucky that you are getting a warning. I've been in many situations where we fired the person for port scanning. It's all the same. They need to protect the network. You are presenting a potential threat. They need a blanket solution that they have put under the authority of the Honor Code office.
You leave college and you will still be treated like a child no matter where you go. When it comes to fears and concerns this will always happnen. --Travis On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 16:35, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > phrasing isn't important to me... > > it's the treating us like five year olds that i am sick of. > > granted, i have never attended a university other than BYU, so i don't > have anything to compare against... > > and, i am not arguing policies (although i am against many)... > > my point is the way they implement/enforce/broadcast their policies. > sure, a third of the campus are eighteen year old boys that still need > baby-sitting, but the rest of us are working professionals that would > like a nice, professional environment to get an education in. > > > > On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 10:10 US/Mountain, Hans Fugal wrote: > > > 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." > > > > 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 > >> 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 > > </quote> > > > > -- > > 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 -- Travis W. Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maverik Country Stores, Inc.
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