[Vision2020] Not On The Palouse, Not Ever (Update #66)

[Tom Hansen]

Nice try, "No Clue".

 

What's next?  Writing your name in yellow snow?

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of heirdoug at netscape.net
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:42 PM
To: thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Not On The Palouse, Not Ever (Update #66)

 

Greetings Visionaires -

Not On The Palouse, Not Ever (Update #66) consists of:

How other memebers of the community have a sense of humor 

and they are not all NSA/Christ Church students.

http://www.tomandrodna.com/notonthepalouse

Take care, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Not On The Palouse, Not Ever

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of
hope."

Robert F. Kennedy
(1925-1968, American Attorney General, Senator)

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Moscow police: Spoof e-mail broke no laws

Written by By Brian Rich -Argonaut

Friday, 28 October 2005

 

No law was broken in the sending of a fake e-mail to 28,000 University of
Idaho accounts, officials from the 

Moscow Police Department said. No law was broken in the sending of a fake
e-mail to 28,000 University of Idaho 

accounts, officials from the Moscow Police Department said. The e-mail,
purporting to be from UI President Tim 

White, was a tongue-in-cheek response to White's Oct. 4 letter stating
Intelligent Design will not be taught as science 

at UI.

 

While no crime has been committed, UI Information Technology Services
officials said university policy was broken. 

"Certainly university policy has been broken, and we've talked to two people
of interest," said Chuck Lanham, 

associate director of ITS. UI technicians concluded the e-mail was sent by
an Adelphia IP address, and two students 

thought responsible were questioned by ITS and members of administration.

 

The university determined the two students weren't involved, but their
Internet connection, which broadcast an 

unsecured wireless signal, had been used by another unknown person to send
the e-mail.

 

UI Dean of Students Bruce Pitman said it is unfortunate the sender of the
e-mail cannot be found and punished.

 

"I think that if we were able to discover who did it, and if we were able to
determine that it had occurred on campus, 

then the punishment would have been quite severe," he said.

 

Lanham said the problem of unsecured signals can be common in populated
areas. "Anybody off the street can go sit 

in the parking lot, log in to your network and send an e-mail from your
connection," he said.

 

Because of the way the e-mail was sent, the university has given up on
finding the individual. Lanham said new 

policies are being written to prevent future violations on campus, but
off-campus connections are impossible to 

monitor.

 

"We're working on policy to prohibit something like this from happening on
campus," Lanham said. "How people 

have their off-campus Internet connection set up is not under the
jurisdiction of the university."

 

Pitman said the policy would guarantee harsh penalties for anyone sending
fake correspondence from campus 

connections. "The university judicial system has sanctioned that it could
include suspension and expulsion," he said. "I 

can't say with certainty that . would have been the outcome, but certainly
we would have been pursuing this with 

that outcome." Moscow police said technicians concluded there was no
evidence any UI computer system was 

compromised or illegally used to send the e-mail, though how the individual
got the 28,000 e-mail addresses is still 

uncertain. Lanham said the university cannot track off-campus Internet
activity, which leaves many questions 

unanswered. "We can't dictate what people do or don't do in their
residencies around Moscow," Lanham said.

 

The only thing off-campus students can do to help, he said, is use an
encryption for wireless signals so random people 

can't use them to access the Internet. "If you have a wireless access point
in your apartment or house, take 

appropriate measures to make sure someone can't unknowingly use your
bandwidth," he said. Pitman said he is 

disappointed Idaho laws aren't keeping up with technology. "It was a serious
act that could have had even greater 

negative consequences than it did, and it probably is an illustration of how
changes in technology have perhaps 

changed more quickly than Idaho law."

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