Re:You've got it backwards (Score 1)

Why would an (in)secure router be any of Boston College's (BC) business? It isn't a service to spread around false notions. If your router is properly secured, few will have enough knowledge about how to break into it and do you wrong. Remember, they were telling them to forget having a router (and, how does a dorm room with more than one student share their internet connection between their desktop, their wireless printer, their laptop, their wireless PS3, their smart phone, etc., without a router?). They didn't tell them to secure their routers. They seem to be operating on behalf of the entertainment industry using the industry's failed logic--remember they were the ones that said that copyright infringement funds money laundering efforts and leads to terrorism.

BC has no more business being involved in that than they do in policing other activities similar activities.

For instance, the same could be said about their CD/DVD copying programs or the use of the photo copier. You don't see the would-be authorities go after BC when students are caught copying copyrighted works on campus copiers. So much fuss isn't seen when students use campus computer equipment to make a copy of a music CD or movie DVD ("BC--lock those down or we'll sue you"). Or how about the blue boxes Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak sold to dorm residents at Stanford? Do you think the whole industry went crazy after Stanford for the actions of their students making illegal long distance calls? Back then calling long distance was incredibly expensive. My point is that it is none of BC's business to make claims such as this in such an inflammatory manner with such unprovable diatribe.

This points to the fact that their argument does not address other things, instead it focuses just on one method where copyright infringement could take place--and even if it did, remember, they'd still have to prove it in a court of law.

And, again, we lock our routers down for that purpose and only lend it out to those we trust. Since when has one kid that got another in trouble ever felt moral enough to apologize? Don't you think kids understand that?

It's their business, because it's their network. And if you had actually look on their site a little further, you could have read their "Technological and Information Resources Use Agreement", and the "Professional Standards and Business Conduct -- Use of University Technological and Information Resources" document.

Here is a little snippet...

All users of technological and information resources are responsible for the protection of University assets and for the accuracy, integrity, and confidentiality of the information to which they have access. Resources are not to be abused or employed in such a way as to interfere with, or cause harm or damage to, another person, institution, or company within or outside the Boston College community. While the University encourages the exploration of educational and scholarly interests through the use of its technological resources, respect for the rights and privacy of others must be observed.