🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <W2B-QAN@cs.widener.edu>, brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes...
>ropg@ooc.uva.nl wrote:
>>Yeah, hang the hackers and even the students that just play around,
>>hang all those ugly 12 year olds that just walk through our 'heavy'
>>security. Why not hang kids that ring your bell and then run away

>>the government. Do NOT (I repeat NOT) try to learn something from the
>>structure of UNIX, in fact, give up C and program in COBOL only!

> While I don't agree with the result of GA's actions (although I'm
>glad to see the guy was only suspended, and not full-fledged expelled),
>I have to back them up on their original premise---if one of my users
>mailed my passwd file out to anyone, I wouldn't just pat him/her on
>the hand and say that they'd been bad.  I wouldn't drive them onto a
>cross either, though.

I'd like to see equal penalties for administrators who release information 
amongst their "colleagues" within the U.  I.e. if a student is suspended 
for releasing confidential information to people who should not have access 
to it, the registrar (e.g.) should be suspended for a like period for releasing 
confidential information to members of the U staff who have no need for 
that exact information in order to do their work, nor should the fact that 
said registrar (e.g.) organized his records in such a way that un-needed 
information was integral with needed information be reason for acquittal.

If university "policies" (and corporate "policies") provided symmetry in 
application and enforcement, I think a lot of people would be a lot happier 
and cooperative in efforts to develop and enforce such policies.