Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04734.html --- Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 08:11:34 -0500 To: declanat_private From: Peter Suber <petersat_private> Subject: Re: FC: Annalee Newitz on state of cyberliberties on U.S. campuses In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20030508234738.018da300at_private> >I'd love to see somebody create a wiki where folks could post comments and >links to the computer use policies at their colleges/universities. >Students need this as a resource. > >-- >Annalee Newitz >www.techsploitation.com Declan, Educause maintains a good compendium of campus policies, http://www.educause.edu/icpl/policies.asp? Peter Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374 Email petersat_private Web http://www.earlham.edu/~peters Editor, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ Editor, FOS News blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html [And Carl Kadie's Computers and Academic Freedom archive at EFF: http://www.eff.org/CAF/ --Declan] --- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 09:34:48 -0700 Subject: Re: FC: Annalee Newitz on state of cyberliberties on U.S. campuses To: declanat_private Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As a member of technical staff for a prominent university research group, I will say this- network monitoring is absolutely necessary. It isn't going to go away, and advising users of monitoring in the terms of service is par for the course. The unwritten rule is that the information that we glean from this monitoring is kept to ourselves, much like client/attorney privilege, but acted upon if a users actions are interfering with other research. The sad thing is, that this is an unwritten rule, and it only exists because sysadmins have a little moral fiber in their diet. We cannot claim sysadmin/user privilege when we get a subpeona. It sure would be nice if we could. Please withhold my name and e-mail if you choose to put this on the list. --- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 11:33:55 -0400 To: declanat_private, Annalee Newitz <annaleeat_private> Subject: FC: Annalee Newitz on state of cyberliberties on U.S. campuses In-Reply-To: <declanat_private> Friday, 9 May 2003 01:19:08 -0400 References: <5.2.1.1.0.20030508234738.018da300at_private> From: "Richard W. DeVaul" <richat_private> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > >--- > >Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 20:09:21 -0400 >From: Annalee Newitz <Annaleeat_private> >To: declanat_private >Subject: electronic privacy on campus > >Hi Declan. Here's an article from CNN about the research I recently >completed on cyberliberties at the top 50 universities in the United >States. I have a small article about it in this month's issue of Wired >magazine. To sum up: nearly every one of these universities has a policy >stating that if students use the campus network, they will be monitored. > >http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/05/06/hln.wired.cyber.rights/ > >And here's me talking about it on CNN Headline news: > >http://www.vmsdigital.com/MyFiles.aspx?Onum=4B0C1437-AC99-4891-8B29-274C317E70B8 > >I'd love to see somebody create a wiki where folks could post comments and >links to the computer use policies at their colleges/universities. Students >need this as a resource. I'll voluneer to set up and host the wiki and mailing lists if someone will reigster or donate an appropriate domain. I notice that the domain campusliberty.org is free.... Rich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD4DBQE+u8phcEzhTv/Qc9oRAlb7AJimNOAxvIvj6ttn/BfHxrtJvBkyAJsHJ83b 6oVu50h+vIklU2xnOA6rHg== =oB0q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- [To avoid duplicating effort, it might be worth talking to FIRE, see http://www.politechbot.com/p-04682.html --Declan] --- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 08:52:27 -0400 Subject: Re: FC: Annalee Newitz on state of cyberliberties on U.S. campuses From: Scott Johnson <sjohns53at_private> To: declanat_private In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20030508234738.018da300at_private> Declan, I haven't seen too much about this story nationally, but it has received a lot of attention here in Columbus. I can't believe there wasn't a "riot" over this.. :> (pasted the complete article, due to silly "registration" requirements) ----------------------------- The Ohio State University Lantern Raid pulls plug on illegal network By R.H. Aly Four Ohio State students received a rude awakening Monday night when University Police barged into their residence hall rooms in search of evidence of an illegal file-sharing network. "I thought they were coming in for a drug raid," said Josh Cavinee, a sophomore in aeronautical engineering. "They came in, patted me down and made me sit in the corner," he said. "It's a good thing we didn't have drugs here." A group consisting of a computer crime specialist, a detective and a university police officer went to each four residence hall rooms Monday night - armed with search warrants - looking for the evidence. Patrick Muckerman, a freshman in computer engineering, said he was asleep when the police came in searching for a computer. They had first searched Muckerman's roommate's computer before they woke Muckerman from his sleep to examine his computer. But instead of finding one in Muckerman's room, they found two. One computer was used for the server program, Muckerman said. The server program allowed its users to propagate file searches. The other computer was used for school. Along with the computer that was used for the server program, the police also confiscated a number of items from Cavinee's room in Houck Hall including a computer, video game manuals, Blockbuster cards, DVD and video games, a DVD player, a power cord and a computer microphone. "They basically took anything that was touching my computer," said Eric Diamond, a freshman in electrical and computer engineering. Neither Cavinee, Muckerman, Diamond or John Wieseman - a freshman in engineering - were arrested after the police confiscated equipment from their respective rooms. At the moment, there is no certainty about the type of charges the students will face, said Ron Michalec, University Police Chief. The students could face charges from the U.S. District Court, the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas or both. "We're not sure where it will go at this point," he said. Police officials said they believe the four students were operating a program called Direct Connect Hub from which other students can make connections with other students to obtain copyrighted information. More than 3,000 on campus students participated in these activities. According to University Police Detective Willis Amweg's affidavit, at one point, "it was estimated that this file-sharing activity alone consumed over 10 percent of the university's total network resources." According to Amweg's affidavit, the student had broken two sections of the Ohio Revised Code. The affidavit states "Section 291.04 ORC makes it a criminal offense for any person to knowingly gain access to any computer network beyond the scope of the express consent of the owner of the computer network." The network owner, OSU, does not allow for students to use ResNet, part of its computer network, for illegal purposes such as downloading copyrighted material. Anyone who downloads copyrighted material deviates from the expressed consent of Ohio State. However, some of the students involved in downloading did not realize the illegality of their actions. One of those students was Wieseman's roommate. "I knew it was probably illegal to download some of the copyrighted stuff, but non-copyrighted stuff was fair game," said Alex Moore, a freshman in computer science engineering. Moore said he had downloaded Direct Connect, although he did not host a hub. "I didn't think it was any different from KaZaA or any programs like that," said Eric Obrynba, a sophomore in Spanish. KaZaA is a file-sharing program that is similar to Napster - except that it has no central server. In the other Ohio Revised Code section police believe students have disobeyed, it is a "criminal offense for any person, having devised a scheme to defraud, to knowingly disseminate, transmit or cause to be transmitted by means of a wire or telecommunications device any picture, sound or image with purpose to execute or otherwise further the scheme to defraud." ... -------------------------------- Scott Johnson Creative Director + Media Architect eleven3 mediadesign sjohns53at_private 614.323.6461 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? 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