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Date: Mar 14, 2005

new surveillance equip installed on campus

Date: Mar 14, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: e-mail pill
"Beware of Internet/phone work in your campus office (of late). Surveillance equipment is being added."

Which buildings have been getting the attention lately??????

Date: Mar 14, 2005

I-Tech "upgraded" the network in JGH over the weekend. Today all faculty office's were wide open. I hear that I-Tech blames the custodial staff for opening the doors and leaving them open. custodial staff says "no way" we would move desks, leave doors open, etc. Heard this secondhand but haven't been in JGH recently.

Date: Mar 14, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Business One
"I-Tech "upgraded" the network in JGH over the weekend. Today all faculty office's were wide open. I hear that I-Tech blames the custodial staff for opening the doors and leaving them open. custodial staff says "no way" we would move desks, leave doors open, etc. Heard this secondhand but haven't been in JGH recently. "

Sounds like SFT wants to keep a close eye (or ear) on the business faculty.......???

Date: Mar 14, 2005

I work in JGH. Just to be on the safe side, I now assume that the phones are buggy and that there is keystroke spyware in the computer system. What a wonderful use of public money.

Date: Mar 14, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: carrera
"I work in JGH. Just to be on the safe side, I now assume that the phones are buggy and that there is keystroke spyware in the computer system. What a wonderful use of public money."

To be sure, all faculty and staff should invest in Anti-SpyWare software. You can Google the term, and run the software on a suspect machine to determine if it does have SpyWare residing on the machine. You only have to pay for the Anti-SpyWare software if you want to remove the offending programs from you machine. We paid about $30 for ours and it works well. Norton and McAfee say they trap and remove SpyWare, but they didn't do the job on our machine. It is possible to beat SFT at this particular game.

Date: Mar 14, 2005

And get a non-USM email account, like every single person I know on campus has. And a cell phone.

Date: Mar 14, 2005

Yeah, on the non-USM email, but don't access from on campus. They can still peek if you are logging into a non-USM email via their servers.

Date: Mar 14, 2005

I've been told that some people only use the computers at the library.

Date: Mar 15, 2005

New surveillance equip installed on campus--rumor?

Date: Mar 15, 2005

RE: new surveillance equip installed on campus

Date: Mar 15, 2005

It's altogether possible that Doty wasn't told about it.

Date: Mar 15, 2005

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source version.

USM does not possess the computing facilities to crack encrypted
email, provided the private key & passphrase are not distributed.

As an added bonus, both PGP versions allow a plaintext (readable)
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used to verify whether the message was modified at any time after it
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Date: Mar 15, 2005

Question: I use a proxy avoidance site at my job to get around WebSense. WOuld this keep them from being able to track your online movement?

Date: Mar 15, 2005

Neither state or federal law apply at USM. Somehow this administration is a protected species.

Date: Mar 15, 2005

It's altogether possible that Doty wasn't told about it.

iTech may not know much either. The installation was done by Spectrum Systems out of Alabama.

Date: Mar 15, 2005

Since it is illegal, what could they do with anything they "intercept"

Date: Mar 15, 2005

I didn't think it was illegal for employers to surveil the use of organizational property.

Date: Mar 15, 2005

I think it is always illegal to tape someone without their consent. As long as they say they are up front about it they can definitely tape things....hence the companies that add "this call may be monitored for quality assurance" because rememeber, if they are tapping employee phones whomever the employee calls is also being recorded.

Date: Mar 15, 2005

I suppose it differs from state to state also...isn't it legal to record conversations in some states as long as one of the parties is aware?

Date: Mar 15, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Outside Observer
"I suppose it differs from state to state also...isn't it legal to record conversations in some states as long as one of the parties is aware?"

Yes . . . in Mississippi, among others. See the case between Ray Mabus and his wife .