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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...check your e-mail by telnet-ing into the Harvard Computer system (fas.harvard.edu), where and when you checked becomes public knowledge for about a week (the records are cleared at 3.00 a.m. every Monday). If you check your e-mail from someone else's room, that person's name is listed; otherwise a quick glance will tell you which building the terminal...
...suggest that "finger" provide only a person's real name, his or her ".plan" file and where the person is logged on only if the person is currently at the terminal. Computer stalking is, unfortunately, not rare. I know at least three students who have felt that someone was keeping track of their movements with commands such as "last," "who" and "finger," but felt that they had insufficient grounds for a formal complaint to the administration. And there is a growing risk as e-mail becomes ever more prevalent that the information found with these seemingly innocuous commands be used...
...very limited ability to respond to computer stalking, since valid and not valid uses are indistinguishable by automatic checks. Please e-mail Harvard Computer Security (security@fas.harvard.edu) and ask them why they haven't followed the lead of many other campuses including Cornell and Brown (which display only a person's address, telephone number and ".plan" file when you finger them) in disabling or altering UNIX commands to protect the privacy of Harvard students. Even if the expectation of privacy in the real world is diminishing every day, let us take a small stand for the antiquated notion that nobody should...
...purples can make a painting more fantastic than real life, but sometimes it is better to be delicate and agile when examining reality or even fantasy. With drawings, it is possible to be simpler and more subdued but at the same time to make a powerful connection with each person who looks at the drawing--everyone will see something different...
...person has had enough background so thathe or she can reasonably take Math 55, then he orshe can take upper-level math classes, or evengraduate classes," he says." There is no reasonfor there to be a freshman math class that coverswhat 55 does...