[ale] [WAY OT] Ethics Question

[Adrin]

I seem to recall that this has come up under company emails. Remember the number of cases
that where filed in the mid 90's.  And most of those where just of people passing jokes
around.  If someone is doing some illegal on a system you admin, and you do nothing then
you can be charged. It is amazing to me how some people think that internet traffic is
private.  Which also brings back the days of when BBS where the thing, and how many of
those got shutdown in raids.

You know if he wanted to make the teacher sweat a little bit he could cut part of the
email and let everyone know that this is not acceptable policy.

Adrin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Glass [mailto:jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:31 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] [WAY OT] Ethics Question
>
>
> On another mailing list, I received an article.  The subject of the article was
> asking about the ethical implications of finding incriminating email from a
> teacher to a student on a High School mail server.  Should the tech turn the
> data over the authorities or keep quiet.  Apparently the Superintendent and the
> Principal want the tech to leave it alone.
>
> My question to the group:
> Should the author of the article be responsible for sending this information the
> FBI/local police, whether or not the subject of the article decides to act?
>
> My opinion:
> Since this article is talking about child abuse by teachers, and since the
> school officials are covering up, I believe the author has a moral obligation to
> contact the authorities.  I'm so irritated that the author and subject have
> apparently done nothing that I'm thinking about forwarding the article on to the
> local FBI, even though I'm not sure if something like that is in their
> jurisdiction.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonathan Glass
>
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