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hopeflicker
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reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Privacy concerns for the paranoid only

said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

“Unless a school using the tool has firewalls on the borders of its network designed to block unsolicited Internet traffic -- and a great many universities do not -- that Web server is going to be visible and accessible by anyone with a Web browser.”
This part was left out of the story summary:
The toolkit allows an administrator to require a username and password for access to the Web server. The problem is that the person responsible for running the toolkit is never prompted create a username and password. What's more, while Apache includes a feature that can record when an outsider views the site, that logging is turned off by default in the MPAA's University Toolkit.
So, unless the admin is dumber than a pet rock, the data can be protected from everyone but the admin. So, where's the problem? Oh, I know - the admin may actually have the info to figure out which students on campus are doing something illegal. God forbid that ever happen.
You honestly believe ZERO info goes back to the industry? Better wake up
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gatorkram
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I find it hard to believe that the admins running the school networks would need this tool to know know whats going on over their networks.

The real question is why should they have to? No other ISPs that I am aware of are required to police what is going over their networks.

Sounds like a bunch of shit to me.
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ISPs are private businesses and most colleges are public schools and receive state and federal money. They're required by ethics and laws to do whats right. But then again you could always be like EMU in MI and lie and cover up about everything; including murders on your campus but thats another topic.
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