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Article #555Re: E-mail Privacy
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 03:49
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 03:49
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vince@bcsaic.UUCP (Vince Skahan) writes: >I also personally believe that snooping around anywhere >for the hell of it just because you have the system privs to >do so is both inappropriate and bordering on unethical. I've had users worried about this. After telling them that I'm going to ignore the slur on my character, I then point out that even if I *was* the sort of person to do that, there's just too much stuff out there. I've had to go searching for "old" config files for some of the shared programs on our LAN. Or worse yet, due to an *immediate* need to free up space (the printer quees were crashing!) I've had to nuke "backup" copies made by some software. Both fairly specific. And they both took *hours*. I figure it would take me *days* to snoop through all the files (4 gigabytes is a *lot* of space, even ignoring the databases) -- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.uucp personal: CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com business: CIS: [76376,1107] 76376.1107@compuserve.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!qiclab!leonard From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: E-mail Privacy Message-ID: <1991Jun7.034940.8984@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Date: 7 Jun 91 03:49:40 GMT References: <15110@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <47896@bcsaic.UUCP> Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon. Lines: 24