[1002] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Please Read, it involves You.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared M Showalter)
Tue Jan 15 22:59:01 2002
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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:43:49 -0500
From: Jared M Showalter <jareds@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
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What is interesting is that the images themselves are being provided not
by hotornot.mit.edu, but by MIT WebSIS, which seems to be willing to give
them to anyone with an MIT certificate. Now that this has been brought to
MIT's attention, I suspect that the site will therefore stop working Real
Soon Now.
Jared
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, S e b a s t i a n wrote:
> Good Evening Members of the MIT community...
> Please take a moment of your time to read this email and take the
> appropriate action.
>
> It has come to my attention that a web site within the MIT community is
> copying the
> idea of the well known amihot.com and other websites such as
> this. However, instead of using
> people who submit their photographs to these website, it is using your
> picture. It supposedly
> has everybody's picture at MIT.(I and my friends have seen our pictures on
> this website)
> [hotornot.mit.edu username: guest password : access]
>
> This concerns me in two ways....
> 1. I don't really want my picture up on a web site without my expressed
> consent.
> 2. I have friends that are NON-JOKINGLY throwing around the words suing,
> lawyers, and legal action.
>
> So the reason for this email is not to chastise the people who thought that
> it would be funny to do this,
> it is to ask them to take it down. If you know of who has put this up,
> please let them know to take it down.
> This way no names are brought up.
>
> However, being the school that we are, I am sure that about 80% of you who
> will read this email can in twenty
> minutes find out where these people live, what year they are, and all the
> other information that comes along with
> an IP address and a name.
>
> Additionally since this is run within MIT, I am sure that if there is legal
> action brought on by some party, that
> the MIT - Network team can find out.
>
> Thus, please take a moment to check it out and be as disgusted as I was and
> take the appropriate action.
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Sebastian.
>
>
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