I presume that this is a scare tactic, if nothing else.
Realistically, no one can expect a university to install said *toolkit*. Tapping the internet connection is a scary concept anywhere else, but in a place with hundreds of CS students all with some/a good bit of tech-savvy...well that would be terrifying. The IT techs already have their arms full with all the network problems they can handle, and bolting on an Orwellian toolkit would send them out the door so fast, I can't even come up with a good-car/bad-car analogy for that one.
I believe that the said-techs would be sufficiently worried enough to crack down even more on the internal P2P network, so that they don't have to install said piece of malware.
That said....I find it very ironic that something we fight against is powered by something we support. (toolkit is run off Xubuntu)
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I presume that this is a scare tactic, if nothing else. Realistically, no one can expect a university to install said *toolkit*. Tapping the internet connection is a scary concept anywhere else, but in a place with hundreds of CS students all with some/a good bit of tech-savvy...well that would be terrifying. The IT techs already have their arms full with all the network problems they can handle, and bolting on an Orwellian toolkit would send them out the door so fast, I can't even come up with a good-car/bad-car analogy for that one. I believe that the said-techs would be sufficiently worried enough to crack down even more on the internal P2P network, so that they don't have to install said piece of malware. That said....I find it very ironic that something we fight against is powered by something we support. (toolkit is run off Xubuntu)