wow, this sounds a whole lot like something that happened here on the RPI campus last year... CIS, or ITS, or whatever they were calling themselves, decided to run a sniffer script to look through shared 'puters and their directories to find 'illicit' material. ostensibly this stemmed from a kiddie porn scare on-campus a year or so before, but what really was happening was that anything that looked bad to them was being catalogued for future use, including porn, mp3s, project proposals, transfer applications, plots to blow up the computing center, you name it. this was only discovered when a couple of students running linux machines realized that they were getting sniffed, took their server logs and posted them to our local usenet groups. the campus newspaper ran a story on it that week, and there was some major backpedaling.
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wow, this sounds a whole lot like something that happened here on the RPI campus last year... CIS, or ITS, or whatever they were calling themselves, decided to run a sniffer script to look through shared 'puters and their directories to find 'illicit' material. ostensibly this stemmed from a kiddie porn scare on-campus a year or so before, but what really was happening was that anything that looked bad to them was being catalogued for future use, including porn, mp3s, project proposals, transfer applications, plots to blow up the computing center, you name it. this was only discovered when a couple of students running linux machines realized that they were getting sniffed, took their server logs and posted them to our local usenet groups. the campus newspaper ran a story on it that week, and there was some major backpedaling.