[1005] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Please Read, it involves You.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Isaac E. Moses)
Wed Jan 16 05:23:00 2002
Message-ID: <200201160554.AAA29767@UDE-TIM.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:54:41 EST
From: "Isaac E. Moses" <imoses@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:04:05 EST."
<5.1.0.14.2.20020115214939.00ab9d38@po9.mit.edu>
Regardless of where you stand on the privacy issue here, I think that you've
got to admire the technical ingenuity that went from noticing that your picture
is up on websis to making a website that uses everyone's pictures <b> without
breaking into anything or stealing any information that's not publicly (within
MIT) available </b>.
Hmmm.... student.mit.edu seems to be offline now. It looks like I/S took this
seriously enough to make immediate, middle-of-the-night changes to the way the
photos are served up. Interesting.
--Isaac
> 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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