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Re: MIT monitoring campus network traffic
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:59:43 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Mark I. Berman" <Mark.Berman () mcla edu> Date: April 21, 2009 9:49:46 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: MIT monitoring campus network traffic Dave et al.,It sounds to me like MIT is doing the normally responsible things to keep a network running. I supposed you could argue about the lack of a specific
policy, but I think a good reading of other extant policies at MIT wouldshow that what they are doing is already covered by more general policies.
Personally I'm a believer in policies that are short and broad. I findProfessor Abelson's statement that he "found it troubling that these logs
were being collected without public knowledge" to be bit disingenuous.Surely he knows that pretty much ALL network activity is logged somewhere,
if only (and usually only) to aid in debugging problems. In my opinionthere are plenty of places to be legitimately concerned about information
privacy without worrying about a college's well intentioned efforts to maintain a functional network. How about the fact that when I wrote my check to the state of Massachusetts to pay my taxes, they required me to put my social security number on the memo line! - Mark -- Mark Berman, Chief Information Officer MCLA - Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 375 Church Street, North Adams, MA. 01247 413-662-5062 Please respect the environment and do not print this message ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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