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Subject:	Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sat, 18 Dec 1999 02:39:58 GMT
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Reply-To: mattdm@mattdm.org Message-Id: <slrn85lsvu.1dq.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote: > Heh heh. No no, I mean when you find some directory with 755 permissions > (instead of 711 permissions) and it's got no index.html file, but it's got > a home.html file linked to from elsewhere, and home.html contains links to > 5 images in its directory, but there are actually 7 images in the directory. > If you look at the other 2 that aren't linked to, then IMHO that's snooping, > unless there's a link somewhere to the directory itself. *shrug* It's snooping in stuff that they've made publicly available. Walking down the public alley behind a store because you're curious about what might be back there could possibly be called "snooping", but it's not unethical by any means. (And I'm not talking about casing the joint for a future heist or anything. *grin* That's a whole seperate issue.) -- Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/

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		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
(...) Interesting side-issue: what about going through the garbage in the alley? I could see it either way - people don't generally leave sensitive information in the dumpster, unless they're idiots, but legally, is acquiring, say, hardware (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
(...) No. Refuse, once released to an ordinary refuse collection service, is no longer the property of the originator. If you don't want people viewing your secret plans, shred them and contract with a secure document service which retains control (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
<385C70D7.568E345D@voyager.net> <FMzorw.GrH@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Well I did some digging to find examples but not as much as I could have. While I'd love to devote the time (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
(...) Heh heh. No no, I mean when you find some directory with 755 permissions (instead of 711 permissions) and it's got no index.html file, but it's got a home.html file linked to from elsewhere, and home.html contains links to 5 images in its (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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