In message <199412291718 .
MAA13778 @
cyclorama .
engin .
umich .
edu>you wrote:
>
> "Barry J. Archer" writes:
> > >For a while I used to send mail to root at sites that probed me; I
> > >stopped when I got sick of reading "We have many users at this
> > >site...who do you think it was and why are you so paranoid" from
> > >university admins.
>
> I'm a university admin and now I'm curious, when I get such a message, what
> would you want me to do?
>
> I could contact the person (student) and say "please don't do that", but if
> they continue it's not like I can do anything to them, or even have
> anything done to them by the university.
>
> >From a big university's point of view, probing ports is very petty compared
> to date rape and all the other problems faced on campus. This is the percept
> held by our campus public safety people.
I cannot comment on our security procedure if we were probed, but I can
remind you of certain laws.
----include text----
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO THIS UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT COMPUTER SYSTEM AND/OR
SOFTWARE IS PROHIBITED BY PUBLIC LAW 98-473.
Public Law 98-473, Chapter XXI, Paragraph 1030 states "Whoever knowingly
accesses a computer without authorization, ... obtains ..., uses, modifies,
destroys, or discloses ..., or prevents authorized use of (data or a
computer owned by or operated for) the Government of the United States ...
shall be punished (by) a fine or imprisonment." The punishments range up to
$100,000 and 10 years, depending upon the nature and extent of the violation.
----end include------
It is unclear to me if the administers of the offending site could
also be charged if they knew that their users were probing/(attempting to
crack) government/military sites.
It's just as easy for J. Random Undergrad to probe *.edu as it
is to probe *.mil
-Benjamin Smith
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Science Applications Internation Corporation
China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center
bens @
archimedes .
vislab .
navy .
mil
1972 Land Rover Series III 88
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