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  • 13-10-2006 9:07pm
    #1
    davidj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭


    hey I'm just signing onto my uni's internet service.In the terms of agreement it mentions that downloading porn is forbidin.Now what exactly consitutes downloading if I just occasionly pop onto the odd sight for a wee gander will I bee kicked off the service or dose this refer more to mass downloading of videos ect...How strict are uni's in this area?Has anyone ever heard of a student being expelled for incidences as trivial as say a vist to playboy.com ect


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  • #2
    Rebeller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 271 ✭✭Rebeller


    even visiting a porn site will cause your browser (internet explorer etc) to download certain info (cookies, remote images stored on different websites).

    Evn if you do not actively "download" any files viewing such material may in itself constitute a breach of the terms.

    Remember that most large organisations monitor internet access and usage so that any questionable downloads can be traced to a particular computer at a particular time.

    I doubt very much if you would be expelled for such a matter but at the very least you would probably lose any internet access privileges and suffer a lot of humiliation and embarrasment.

    Leave the porn for your own computer:D


  • #3
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Pretty much what the above post said, leave the porn on your home computer or wait till your at home for, the "wee gander". :)


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,982 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Downloading is not the same as saving.

    Just because you don't save the file to your local drive, doesn't mean it hasn't downloaded to your machine.

    If you want clarity on what they define it as - ask them, ;)

    if you ignore the morality, and that the network is state sponsored is some way, you still have copyright issues and potential sexual harassment claims if someone else sees what's on your laptop. But not really for the security thread, just more reasons why the answer is still "That which is not exprecessly permitted is denied" when someone else manages the network.

    And of course the malware problems, if you are using an unpatched browser then you can have stuff downloaded for you, wmv's can have exploits http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/13/drm_trojan/. Hell, at the start of the year windows could not even safely display images, even if the application /browser was immune.


  • #5
    davidj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭davidj


    This is my own computer,I live in halls and have a desktop.Its in my own room and I am the only one with access,I'll be using it mostly for reaearch for lab reports and printing graphs ect.I just want to know how strict uni's are in general to this sort of thing.


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