University logging mail to anon.penet

Jeff Simmons jsimmons at goblin.punk.net
Wed Sep 6 20:29:03 PDT 1995


> 
> 
> So which university is this?
> 
> > This just came up locally, and I'd like to have some comments on it, 
> > especially from people who understand the law a lot better than I do:
> > 
> > Our local University apparently has been logging ALL mail to anon.penet,
> > including faculty, students, and off-campus users.
> > 
> > They maintain such weak security that someone was able to "obtain"
> > the logs and post them to a local usenet group, thus compromising
> > everyone's "anonymous" identities.
> > 
California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo

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Jeff Simmons                           jsimmons at goblin.punk.net





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