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From: yerazuws@rpics.RPI.EDU (Crah)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Net Access Policies?
Message-ID: <647@rpics.RPI.EDU>
Date: Mon, 19-Jan-87 10:29:15 EST
Article-I.D.: rpics.647
Posted: Mon Jan 19 10:29:15 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Jan-87 23:51:44 EST
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Summary: You have pretty much the right idea

In article <9994@gatech.EDU>, spaf@gatech.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes:
> We're about to get hooked up to SURAnet, and thence to the Internet.
> There are some concerns here about suddenly making Internet ftp and
> rlogin a reality for many hundreds of students.
> 
> Our first thought is to draft some kind of document stressing that it
> is impolite and possibly illegal to snoop around the net or try to
> break into other systems.  This document would be distributed along
> with accounts.
> 
> How do other campuses handle this issue?  Is it handled? 
	
Every account comes on a piece of paper that has "Computer Ethics" printed
on it- and a notation that screwing with what thou art not supposed to
screw with is a punishable offense.  I don't think the boilerplate contains
a reference to the ECPA of 1986, but it should.
	
Problems?  Sure, occasional problems.  But if you treat electronic 
burglary the same as physical burglary the situation improves very 
quickly after a couple of years.
	
Maybe someday "hacker" will come to mean what it used to mean.

	-Bill Yerazunis