Campus cops treat Ubuntu use as sign of criminality

[Jerry Feldman]

BC has some issues being a Jesuit school surrounded by an upscale Jewish =

neighborhood :-)

We'll see how this plays out, but I think there might be a bit more in=20
this than a Linux console with a prompt.

On 04/18/2009 01:38 AM, Richard Chonak wrote:
> If this story is true, there is some serious pinheadery going on in=20
> Chestnut Hill.
>
> In March, Boston College campus police were investigating a case of=20
> 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=20
> 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
>
>  =20


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