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From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: legality of filesystem greps
Message-ID: <2066@spdcc.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 88 01:01:59 GMT
References: <19881104194515.0.GLR@MOSCOW-CENTRE.AI.MIT.EDU> <26875@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
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> glr@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Jerry Roylance) writes:

>>So the first step might be to (quietly) grep unix filesystems for

 bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:

>This would yield circumstantial evidence, at best.
>Any information found this way would be obtained illegally, at worst,
>unless you have a search warrant against a specific user's files.

	do you consider Cornell's search of Morris' files to be illegal?
	did Cornell CCS or a department sysadm conduct such a search?
	(the press did report this.)


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