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...seem to have been wired since birth. During the first month of her course, teacher Fulton, who designed the class two years ago, exhorts her students to conquer the Net before they do anything else. They become comfortable using BBSs (bulletin-board systems), IRC (Internet Relay Chat), MUDs (multiple-user dungeons), Usenet newsgroups and such World Wide Web browsers as Mosaic and Gopher. But Fulton also engages them in discussions of related social and political issues such as privacy, universal access and the role of governmental regulation...
PASSWORD SNIFFERS: These tiny programs are hidden on a network and instructed to record logons and passwords, which are then stored in a secret file. By the end of a week, this file can contain hundreds of user names and their associated passwords. Last year an advisory from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response Team warned that, as a result of a rash of sniffing attacks, tens of thousands of passwords had been stolen and were presumed to be compromised...
...really a user-friendly or comfortable library," he says...
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...
...pages will not mean any more work for HASCS because it does not require any maintenance, and because HCS members, rather than HASCS staff, will provide user services...