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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: The situation at Cornell...
Message-ID: <6741@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 7 Oct 90 21:51:17 GMT
References: <46799@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <46799@cornell.UUCP> wayner@fulla.cs.cornell.edu (Pete) writes:
>Graduate students ...  are required to sign a form giving
>the system administrators the right to read personal files as "part of 
>their normal, daily activity." Ostensibly this is to help us if
>we ever screw up our .login files on the UNIX boxes, but ...

>Oh, the rule also forbids the use of encryption technology.

If the rule was only so they can be allowed to help you if your .login
file was screwed up, there would be no prohibition on encryption.

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