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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'll suggest that logging is extremely
risky, and something you should avoid unless served with a
"preservation order" (as far as I know, no-one has).<br>
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When I was at York, the Library walked us through the process that
they used to protect the privacy of borrowers, something they've
fought hard for for several centuries (!). Records should only be
kept while they are actively needed (DHCP until the lease times
out, for example) and then converted into management counts (5X
leases/month for X addresses, 250 conflicts for 134 hours total).<br>
<br>
Anyone who keeps records will find out that they're an attractive
nuisance: if they're worth money for blackmail (Lady Chatterley's
Lover, for example), people will steal library circulation
records. Police will ask for who borrowed "Steal This Book". DHCP
logs are attractive to not-entirely-legal "copyright defence"
companies, and detailed HTTP logs are attractive to advertisers,
who will pay you to add tracking cookies and beacons, and try to
weasel them in if you don't agree.<br>
<br>
Avoid being a target: talk to the University Librarians about
confidentiality. They're experts!<br>
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--dave<br>
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On 05/23/2014 02:48 PM, Mauro Souza wrote:<br>
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<div>On my University, everything was logged, and audited
somehow. Never heard of any punishments.<br>
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Logging everything and keeping the records for limited time (a
couple months) would help against litigation in case of
piracy, hacking, or mischief. Bandwidth can be controlled by
user too, so you could put throttle controls in place.<br>
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But locking everything down should not be done.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2014-05-23 13:25 GMT-03:00 Ansar
Mohammed <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Thanks all for the candid feedback and the trip down memory
lane. The<br>
combined experience/mindshare on this community is always
impressing<br>
and humbling.<br>
<br>
I do appreciate the danger of stifling freedom of expression
and<br>
allowing academics the freedom required to conduct research.<br>
<br>
I have two concerns with a relaxed and open internet access
policy<br>
* exposure to litigation in the event of piracy<br>
* bandwidth consumption.<br>
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BTW, is your internet access audited/logged?<br>
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On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Mel Wilson <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mwilson-Ja3L+HSX0kI@public.gmane.org">mwilson-Ja3L+HSX0kI@public.gmane.org</a>>
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> On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 21:23 -0400, <a
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href="mailto:phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w@public.gmane.org">phiscock-QrcD4xidKQk@public.gmane.orgson.ca</a>
wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Then one day, the then president had lunch with
someone from IBM and<br>
>> suddenly, without any consultation with the
committee, we had a new<br>
>> computer system, which apparently was a Steal
of a Deal. Ultimately, it<br>
>> turned out (I heard) that the computer needed
additional memory and ended<br>
>> up costing much more, but we did get a new
computer system.<br>
><br>
> That was the IBM way. They sold straight to the
people who signed the<br>
> cheques. I remember a whole benchmark team being
recalled from Phoenix<br>
> after the news hit that IBM had already closed the
deal.<br>
><br>
> Mel.<br>
><br>
><br>
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