Campus cops treat Ubuntu use as sign of criminality

[Richard Chonak]

If this story is true, there is some serious pinheadery going on in 
Chestnut Hill.

In March, Boston College campus police were investigating a case of 
e-mail harassment and seized a student I.T. worker's computers.

In their application for a warrant, some of the signs of his "illegal 
activities" were that he was a computer expert, ran multiple operating 
systems, and even used a command-line interface!

Along with his computers they took his cell phone and Ubuntu CD (ooh - 
scary!).

The EFF is helping the student:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious

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--Richard Chonak