I actually went to a more knowledgeable source on this one... my mom (lawyer). Apparently crafting "appropriate" subpeonas is not easy and ones that are well crafted can be weaseled out of. The way she explained it is that its like the tax system, a lot of loopholes etc. So I am not sure that the incorrect subpeonas were malicious attempts to force the surrender of normally unobtainable data. I also agree that this seems like a very legitimate technique. Often the smallest shreds of evidence are what get a case rolling (I mean sheesh haven't you ever seen Law and Order or CSI!?)
I guess the problem I have with your position is not that there are other sites available to you, but that there are some that are not simply because they have been deemed "politically inappropriate" or something along those lines. It makes you wonder what else you might not have access to? Knowing that some sites are blocked makes a situation in which it becomes hard to trust that anything you might read would be complete, truthful, or accurate (and even less than the normal internet falsities).
My roommate is the student manager of Network Operations at my school (1,600 students in Maine, and one of the only ones that has its NOC for the most part student run, and I hear the ONLY one that allows some students root access to main college servers), and he has a hell of a time dealing with the windows boxes on campus. For the most part students have NO idea how to keep their machines safe. The school gives everyone free virus software with an easy install off of the network and most people seem to use it. However, there are always infected machines. The policy at NOC is to black hole infected machines immediately and without warning and the lack of internet access lights a fire under even the most lazy, computer ignorant a**es (it is common knowledge now that if you suddenly find just yourself without net access that you probably got a virus). So the most obvious idea seems to work (treat it like a disease.. leper colony subnets or quarantine for infected machines... obvious no?)
The only problem is that the student help desk usually get SWAMPED when a new virus hits, or at the beginning of the year (however the elite students at NOC don't have to deal with fixing PC viruses on individual student boxes and generally look down their noses at the poor help desk students).
Is this anything like the policy anywhere else? Do larger schools find that the problem is more complex than simply shutting off access from infected machines?
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I actually went to a more knowledgeable source on this one... my mom (lawyer). Apparently crafting "appropriate" subpeonas is not easy and ones that are well crafted can be weaseled out of. The way she explained it is that its like the tax system, a lot of loopholes etc. So I am not sure that the incorrect subpeonas were malicious attempts to force the surrender of normally unobtainable data. I also agree that this seems like a very legitimate technique. Often the smallest shreds of evidence are what get a case rolling (I mean sheesh haven't you ever seen Law and Order or CSI!?)
I guess the problem I have with your position is not that there are other sites available to you, but that there are some that are not simply because they have been deemed "politically inappropriate" or something along those lines. It makes you wonder what else you might not have access to? Knowing that some sites are blocked makes a situation in which it becomes hard to trust that anything you might read would be complete, truthful, or accurate (and even less than the normal internet falsities).
My roommate is the student manager of Network Operations at my school (1,600 students in Maine, and one of the only ones that has its NOC for the most part student run, and I hear the ONLY one that allows some students root access to main college servers), and he has a hell of a time dealing with the windows boxes on campus. For the most part students have NO idea how to keep their machines safe. The school gives everyone free virus software with an easy install off of the network and most people seem to use it. However, there are always infected machines. The policy at NOC is to black hole infected machines immediately and without warning and the lack of internet access lights a fire under even the most lazy, computer ignorant a**es (it is common knowledge now that if you suddenly find just yourself without net access that you probably got a virus). So the most obvious idea seems to work (treat it like a disease.. leper colony subnets or quarantine for infected machines... obvious no?)
The only problem is that the student help desk usually get SWAMPED when a new virus hits, or at the beginning of the year (however the elite students at NOC don't have to deal with fixing PC viruses on individual student boxes and generally look down their noses at the poor help desk students).
Is this anything like the policy anywhere else? Do larger schools find that the problem is more complex than simply shutting off access from infected machines?
Whoooo nelly... It kind of makes you wonder what kind of "enhanced security" those boys loaded that thing up with?
I am guessing it will either somehow steal every bit of information, including your fingerprints
or be totally sweet