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Last week, The Crimson reported the existence of a public file which logged network users' downloading of pornography off the Internet. This file had existed for more than a year, and was available to any student with a network account. Although Franklin M. Steen, director of Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Service (HASCS), claims that" only The Crimson viewed the files," an informal Crimson survey revealed that more than a dozen students knew of the file's existence and were able to view it in the past year...
...University's administration, not HASCS Director Franklin L. Steen, that should have set the University's computer policy. Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, or at least the faculty's Standing Committee on Information Technology should create and adhere to a system of rules governing computer privacy issues...
When The Crimson made present HASCS director Franklin M. Steen (no relation to Richard) aware of the existence of this file, Steen did not take any immediate action. The mere fact that the director was not aware that the log file existed is of grave concern; but the complete absence of any consistent policy defining the terms and guarantees of students' privacy, as well as the subsequently panicked manner with which the file was closed down, point to a much more fundamental shortcoming in the way Harvard manages its critical computer systems...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt ['04] used to say, 'I don't answer iffy questions," he said...
...Franklin Steen, director of Harvard Arts and Computer Services (HASCS), who stated on Tuesday that access to the log files on all computers would be cut off, said he did not know why the file was accessible...