A page of pointers to resources to help Doc Dick run the Comp Sci network at CSUSB

Dr. Georgiou was asking if I knew of a more "secure" ftp server.  I would
suggest looking at ncftpd.  It is written by Mike Gleason.  He has added
some great features and is very responsive to the market!  It only took him
5 minutes to responde to a request of mine.  His url for ncftpd is:
ftp://ftp.probe.net/pub/ncftpd/

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Policies(Draft For Comment)

Please Send comments to dick@csci.csusb.edu.

1. The CS Network is here to serve the students, staff, and faculty of the Computer Science Dept, California State University. Its purpose is to be used simply, safely, and freely by these users for legal educational purposes.
1. Therefore: The security, privacy, and freedom of the students, staff, and faculty to use these systems will be protected.
2. Therefore: An attempt to breach security or privacy will be punished.
3. And: Any activity that makes it harder for others to achieve there legitimate access, including but not limited to:
• harassment,
• hacking, and
• hogging;

will also be stopped.

2. And:
1. Since any illegal activity, including, but not limited to:
• piracy,
• pornography, and
• pushing

may lead to the site being closed down or put out of our control,

2. Then: Illegal activities will also be terminated and punished.
3. And:
1. Because security depends on passwords remaining secret,
2. No staff or faculty member will ever ask for your password over the telephone or Electronic mail.
3. No staff or faculty member will send a password thought EMail,
4. You should keep your password private and change it several times a quarter
5. and make sure that it is not easy to guess.

The Communications Decency Act

(USA, Feb 8th 1996) includes the following (in Section 502(2))

• Whoever -
1. in interstate or foreign communications knowingly -

(A)

uses an interactive computer service to send to a specific person or persons under 18 years of age, or

(B)

uses any interactive computer service to display in a manner available to a person under 18 years of age,


any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs,
regardless of whether the user of such service placed the call or initiated the communication;
or

2. knowingly permits any telecommunications facilities under such a person's control to be used for an activity prohibited by paragraph (1) with intent that it be used for such activity,

shall be fined under Title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

Worried? Check out the the full text of the act. Also see the following:

• HotWired's Overview
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Blue Ribbon Campaign
• Todd Lappin's private mailing list of updates and background. Send mail
• Citizens Internet Empowrement Coalition's Complaint against the CDA,
• ACLU's Complaint against the CDA, to majordomo@wired.com with subscribe cda-bulletin in the body of the message.