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Forwarding Design-L mail by: <carr0023@GOLD.TC.UMN.EDU> () on 
Nov 23    
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   This message revealed itself yesterday on my shell account.  
This could
   be some arbitrary law going down in the present, even worse 
than the
   McCarthy era witchunt.  So much silence, even for academic 
concerns,
   and system administrators decide whom to prosecute for 
relevance.  
_________________________________________________________________
___________  UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0 (gold.tc.umn.edu)

This system is for the use of authorized account holders only.

Individuals using this computer system without authority, or in 
excess  of their authority, are subject to having all of their 
activities on  this system monitored and recorded by system 
personnel.

In the course of monitoring individuals improperly using this 
system,  or in the course of routine system maintenance, the 
activities of  authorized account holders may also be 
monitored.

Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring 
and is  advised that if such monitoring reveals possible 
evidence of criminal  activity, system personnel may provide 
the evidence gathered to law  enforcement officials.

-warning banner deleted-

this is a mesg that appeared in the may/june 1993 InfoSECURITY NEWS 
"Legal Beat" column.  it is supposedly recommended by the U.S. Justice 
Department to avoid violation of the ECPA.

i got this info from the docs that came with UltraSHIELD, a security 
program for Macintoshes.

the warning also 'showed up' one day on this acct which i found a bit 
disturbing but then realized where it came from after getting the mac 
security program.


oh, i suppose i should say who the hell i am. 

my name is patrick finerty.  i'm a fourth year grad student in 
biochemisty at the university of utah.  this is an alum acct i have 
through seattle university and i can also be reached at the accts below.


-pat finerty
biochem grad student, u of utah
finger for pgp key

finerty@msscc.med.utah.edu
pfinerty@nyx10.cs.du.edu
pfinerty@seattleu.edu