Word: unix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend of mine recently checked his e-mail after an early morning struggle with a problem set. Although staying up into the wee hours of the morning to complete work is not unusual for Harvard students, his comment about the speedy response of the UNIX systems at the Science Center was startling...
...smiled pensively. It was my friend's final sentence that really got me thinking about the UNIX systems of the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS). He had expected a slow response, but was pleasantly surprised when he got a rapid...
Because husc7 is a shared computer (more precisely, a UNIX machine), all I would need to do to determine cmhornby's identity is type "finger cmhornby." This is not a violation of Catharine's privacy, since by registering to have a user account she agreed to be added to the public database of users. Moreover, since address and phone information for students is part of the public record at Harvard, I could use the program "ph" (described in detail last semester in this column) to find out exactly where Catharine lives...
...publicized seminars with accompanying literature about network ethics, privacy issues and the legal implications of network action. Educated, technologically competent communities such as ours cannot afford to proceed blindly, trusting that our own conceptions of network security are in fact reality. In addition, all network users should receive detailed Unix manuals, as well as Harvard's particular network configuration and idiosyncrasies. Only in this way can we expect that responsible users will possess adequate information about their system...
Steen pointed to former Unix Systems ManagerMike Burner's recent departure as an example ofHASCS's staffing problems. "It's a manpowerissue," he said...