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University logging mail to anon.penet (fwd)
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> From toad.com!owner-cypherpunks Wed Sep 6 21:43:41 1995
> From: Jeff Simmons <[email protected]>
> Subject: University logging mail to anon.penet
>
> 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.
>
punk.net is in San Luis Obispo. Since Skypoint carries a lot of
regional groups, I can follow the issue on Usenet, in these
groups:
slo.unix,slo.general,slo.punks,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp
.org.eff.talk
Those of you who don't get the slo.* groups, you can probably see
the original posts in comp.org.eff.talk or alt.comp.acad-freedom.
The subject is "No subject".
(I still chuckle when I see the group slo.sex ...)