[201] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Civil Rights Violation (was: Re: printing violation?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Childers)
Tue May 16 05:16:40 1995
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 20:40:14 -0700
From: pascal@netcom.com (Richard A Childers)
To: ids@uow.edu.au
Cc: krish@eng.iastate.edu, krish@geovizgw.eng.iastate.edu,
mccoy@eng.iastate.edu, mccoy@geovizgw.eng.iastate.edu,
yeazel@eng.iastate.edu, yeazel@geovizgw.eng.iastate.edu
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
On May 15, 10:33am, someone from the account of Troy Yeazel wrote:
> I just unjammed some of the printers down here ...
That's really all that you needed to say.
> and it seems that
> one of the users this past weekend was printing off a large number of
> pornographic pictures. If you wish to look into this or take any action, I
> discovered the account these files were printing from was krish.
-=8=-
Someone from the account of Chris McCoy responds :
"Please save the material and bring it to me. We'll want to talk to this
individual. Perhaps even close his account until such time as he responds."
-=8=-
< ahem >
I believe you just violated ~krish's civil rights, there, by presuming him
or her guilty until proven innocent. As if computer fraud was a new thing.
Forging email is old hat. Is forging print jobs that different ?
Only to the unimaginative, it would seem.
Not only that, but you two have perhaps - based upon information and belief,
you understand - defamed him or her across the entire planet.
Perhaps you have also deliberately inflicted emotional damage upon him/her.
No doubt, you are both quick to assert *your* civil rights ... demand them,
even. Do either of you understand that civil rights depend upon a balance,
that it's not a one-way street ? I'm just curious, you understand ... it has
nothing to do with this, I'm sure.
Not sure where s/he *can't* file a suit against you. (-:
Personally, my sympathies are with ~krish. Beauty is in the eye of the ...
oh, never mind. Pearls before swine, and all that.
What the hell is the matter with you ? If you cared about it that much, you
would quietly take the person aside and explain to them the realities of the
computer age, and encourage them to take their diskettes to a copy center and
rent time on a printer.
'Nuff said.
-- richard
Truth : the most deadly weapon known to civilization. Possession
forbidden by employers, governments, and authorities, across the
known universe. Violation of this regulation punishable by death.
richard childers pascal@netcom.com
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On May 15, 10:33am, Troy Yeazel wrote:
> Subject: printing violation?
>
> I just unjammed the queue on some of the printers down here, and it seems
that
> one of the users this past weekend was printing off a large number of
> pornographic pictures. If you wish to look into this or take any action, I
> discovered the account these files were printing from was krish.
Please save the material and bring it to me. We'll want to talk to this
individual. Perhaps even close his account until such time as he responds.
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