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From: rkan@mole.ai.mit.edu (R. Kan)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: e-mail privacy
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Date: 2 Mar 91 00:44:26 GMT
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I have reason to believe that my e-mail is being monitored by
my sysadmins on another system that I am on.  They have stated
that since the university owns the computer, I have no right to
privacy on the system even though I have not signed any statements
saying I give up my rights in order to use the system.  Is this
valid from a legal viewpoint?  Can they read anyone's mail at
their discretion?  There is a witchhunt going on right now
on this system to get rid of users that do not use the system
for "legitimate" purposes...i.e. no games, no ftp, no irc.
The latest security measures include closing off "chfn" and "last".
I have never been on a unix system where wtmp was closed off
for security reasons, are there any systems out there that
have this "high security risk" shut off?  Please e-mail or
reply here so I can show them how bogus they are.

R. Kan