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| 9 Apr 07, 2:04 AM doulos UK(SW), 7 yrs  |
My halls of residence had a similar agreement. And I was looking at considerably more dodgy stuff than even this site. I think it might be more a way of them avoiding any liability for what you do on the internet. But I don't know what different policies universities operate. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." H. L. Mencken | |
| 9 Apr 07, 3:49 AM frapperia UK, 5 yrs |
I'm currently finishing my degree at one of the top ten unis in the country, and lots of people looked at porn while living in hall in first year. A lot of illegal downloading went on on Ares, too, but unless you're accessing something like child porn or whatever, it doesn't seem like they care. | |
| 9 Apr 07, 8:29 AM RubberBiker UK, 8 yrs  |
I went to Imperial College as a postgrad. My dept had one sys-admin for all undergrad computing facilities and another for the postgrad side. The postgrad side guy was a really cool Aussie, and had the college been aware of what he got up to in his office, he would have been instantly fired. The undergrad side chap was a born again Christian. He had written his own file-scanner to scan all undergraduate files for naughty words and auto-delete them. He could and did suspend undergrad accounts for looking at/possessing fairly soft porn. (I think he restored them to first-time offenders that admitted their transgressions and made suitable creeping apologies to him in person). He was on his own little mission to clean up the neighbourhood. The reality is as a student you have limited power compared to certain college employees - so don't get caught. If you do, you may well be within your rights, but may have your studies massively disrupted until things are resolved. | |
| 9 Apr 07, 8:44 AM SteveDuk UK(CM), 11 yrs |
Why don't you ask the uni IT dept
Wild or Wanton are you? | |
| 9 Apr 07, 10:03 AM diamiruk 7 yrs |
Directly asking a member of the IT staff is the way to find out what the rules you signed actually mean. My uni course was split, 2 years at a "cheap" uni where accessing this site was not a problem. The other year at a Home Office run training establishment, where rules were much stricter. Talking to a technician we found that there were a small number of "less observed" access points which could be used for "personals sites". Best of luck | |
| 9 Apr 07, 10:25 AM Olokun UK(S), 5 yrs |
From my expereince with universities, they have a filtering system in place, and so normally the filter picks up the type of sites that they class as inapropriate, and I used to log on to IC at university; I think they generally look for sites that have picture content, such as the XXX porn sites, where people looking over your shoulder can see what you're looking at, but sites like IC have written content, so the person looking over your shoulder isn't having such nudity thrust upon them as they have to focus to read what is on here. Therefore I believe that IC would be classed as a source for information if anything, and not in breach of this censorship DMU sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me! | |
| 9 Apr 07, 10:31 AM ClassAct2005 UK(N), 7 yrs |
30% of what students download is music illegally apparently. It's a huge issue and liability of the universities for what students do too. It is clearly likely you break the policy here. YOu might want to risk it or may be not. The alternative is to take your lap top if you have one to somewhere with a non university wireless network which is safe. Presumably in your second and later years you will be in a rented house like my children who got wireless bb there so we're probably only talking about the summer term this year. | |
| 9 Apr 07, 10:45 AM Mistress_B UK, 6 yrs |
Sorry to say this but if your Uni has a system like the one I maintain at my place of work , then I am afraid the answer is don't access IC from uni! on a daily basis I check our system and have to laugh when the domestic bursar comes up on the system as having violated the rules because she is looking at 'houskeeping' that is classed as 'grooming ' as in 'paedophilia' Our Art teacher has continual problems as certain artists are banned due to the names of their paintings... salvador Dali being one due to his 'great Masturbator' painting And if anyone dares to write the good old traditional 'scunthorpe'... well.... the computers explode!!! | |
| 9 Apr 07, 10:47 AM ClassAct2005 UK(N), 7 yrs |
And I think staff at DEFRA even had trouble looking at work related pictures of pink pigs through their IT systems... (pink naked flesh) |
