June 8, 2001
Michigan Deactivates Internet Program Linked to Several Stalking Incidents
After eight incidents of network-related stalking on its Ann Arbor campus in the last three years, the University of Michigan has discontinued a service that can locate people using the network.
In May, the university's systems engineers turned off a command in the "finger user information protocol" because it could identify the user name, building location, and particular computer being used by someone who was logged into a network system running the finger service. That information
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