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Article #34Re: Privacy vs. Security concerns: Should excessive interest be traced?
From: Paul Johnson
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 13:54
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 13:54
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In article <1992Apr04.214211.8793@robobar.co.uk> gtoal@robobar.co.uk (Graham Toal "gtoal@vangogh.cs.berkeley.edu") writes: >In article <2APR199219194791@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes: >>[Someone keeps fingering my site. I know where, but not who] >2) If you really want to find out, finger the other machine right back > every time they finger you & see who's on. After enough of these > you'll see someone who's always on. At this point the remote sysadmins notice that someone from moose is fingering them a dozen times a day, and start fingering moose to find out who is doing it. Can you spell "infinite recursion?" :-) Paul. -- Paul Johnson (paj@gec-mrc.co.uk). | Tel: +44 245 73331 ext 3245 --------------------------------------------+---------------------------------- These ideas and others like them can be had | GEC-Marconi Research is not for $0.02 each from any reputable idealist. | responsible for my opinions
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!pyrltd!root44!hrc63!mrcu!paj From: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Privacy vs. Security concerns: Should excessive interest be traced? Message-ID: <1558@snap> Date: 6 Apr 92 13:54:15 GMT References: <2APR199219194791@moose.cccs.umn.edu> <1992Apr04.214211.8793@robobar.co.uk> Reply-To: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson) Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK Lines: 21