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Re: Logging outgoing telnet sessions

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From: Hank Nussbacher
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 10:03
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>I don't believe that is any of your business. Where someone telnets to,
>who they send mail to, etc., should not be logged. Your plan sounds
>an awful lot like "Big Brother" to me.

The phone company records every phone call you make.  No one looks
at it until either you feel the bill is wrong and request a detailed
bill or the police feel there is a need to look at who you have been
calling (assuming you are a drug dealer or blackmailer).  You may feel
that the phone company is invading your privacy, but fortunately the
justice system as well as society does not.

The same is true with recording outgoing Telnet sessions.  No one could
care less where you are telneting to, and the logs are usally so large
that *no* sysadmin reads them.  They are there for cases of hacking.

Hank Nussbacher
Bar-Ilan University
Israel
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Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
Date: Wednesday, 15 Apr 1992 11:03:43 IST
From: Hank Nussbacher <HANK@BARILVM.BITNET>
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Subject: Re: Logging outgoing telnet sessions
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