Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!apple!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Stoll and privacy issues Message-ID: Date: 5 Oct 90 18:00:35 GMT References: <1990Oct04.211114.9489@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <1990Oct5.022152.20894@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 12 gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes: >Is this common? If my institution had such a policy I wouldn't like it >one bit. At my alma mater, you had better have a warrant for access. The system programmers respect your privacy unless you've demonstrated that you are not abiding by the rules associated with the account, or if there is an operational reason for them to access your files (a rarity at best). -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]