[1427] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Globe: BC, MIT decline to name students in music-use case
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dmitry Portnyagin)
Tue Jul 22 14:03:25 2003
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:00:36 -0700
From: Dmitry Portnyagin <dimochka@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
That's great. Maybe we should create an elaborate scheme of randomly
swapping IP addresses then :). If, of course, you will trust that whoever
will be using your address won't create more problems than you would. Is
that a misuse of MIT computing resources?
Dmitry
>
> It doesn't seem like MIT even knows the identity of students using
> particular IP addresses with enough certainty for use in court. Although
> it does assign IP addresses to individual students, there is no mechanism
> to prevent anyone in a dorm from using the IP address of someone else in
> the dorm, as long as they don't try to use it simultaneously.
>
> Jared
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