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    AssMan

    AssMan

    Meh...
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    Jan 27, 2011
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    What did I just do?

    "YOU ARE ACCESSING A U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM, WHICH INCLUDES: (1) THIS COMPUTER, (2) THIS COMPUTER NETWORKING, (3) ALL COMPUTERS CONNECTED TO THIS NETWORK, AND (4) ALL DEVICES AND STORAGE MEDIA ATTACHED TO THIS NETWORK OR TO A COMPUTER ON THIS NETWORK...

    BY USING THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM, YOU UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING:

    YOU HAVE NO REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY REGARDING ANY COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED THROUGH OR DATA STORED ON THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM. AT ANY TIME, THE GOVERNMENT MAY MONITOR, INTERCEPT, SEARCH AND/OR SEIZE DATA TRANSITING OR STORED ON THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM.

    ANY COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED THROUGH OR DATA STORED ON THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM MAY BE DISCLOSED OR USED FOR ANY U.S. GOVERNMENT-AUTHORIZED PURPOSE."

    So my laptop is part of the "Information Network," and as such, the Government can monitor or seize any data they want from it? Or am I just misunderstanding again? :shrug: :tinfoil:
     
    Skins_Brew

    Skins_Brew

    loves the smell of cosmo
    Mar 4, 2009
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    snallygaster said:
    What did I just do?

    "YOU ARE ACCESSING A U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM, WHICH INCLUDES: (1) THIS COMPUTER, (2) THIS COMPUTER NETWORKING, (3) ALL COMPUTERS CONNECTED TO THIS NETWORK, AND (4) ALL DEVICES AND STORAGE MEDIA ATTACHED TO THIS NETWORK OR TO A COMPUTER ON THIS NETWORK...

    BY USING THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM, YOU UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING:

    YOU HAVE NO REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY REGARDING ANY COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED THROUGH OR DATA STORED ON THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM. AT ANY TIME, THE GOVERNMENT MAY MONITOR, INTERCEPT, SEARCH AND/OR SEIZE DATA TRANSITING OR STORED ON THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM.

    ANY COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED THROUGH OR DATA STORED ON THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM MAY BE DISCLOSED OR USED FOR ANY U.S. GOVERNMENT-AUTHORIZED PURPOSE."

    So my laptop is part of the "Information Network," and as such, the Government can monitor or seize any data they want from it? Or am I just misunderstanding again? :shrug: :tinfoil:
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    You are just misunderstanding.

    When it says "This Computer" it is is talking about itself, the server that is hosting the webpage you are viewing, not YOUR computer.
     
    X

    xref

    Member
    May 9, 2013
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    snallygaster said:
    What did I just do?

    "YOU ARE ACCESSING A U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM, WHICH INCLUDES: (1) THIS COMPUTER, (2) THIS COMPUTER NETWORKING, (3) ALL COMPUTERS CONNECTED TO THIS NETWORK, AND (4) ALL DEVICES AND STORAGE MEDIA ATTACHED TO THIS NETWORK OR TO A COMPUTER ON THIS NETWORK...

    BY USING THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM, YOU UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING:

    YOU HAVE NO REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY REGARDING ANY COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED THROUGH OR DATA STORED ON THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM. AT ANY TIME, THE GOVERNMENT MAY MONITOR, INTERCEPT, SEARCH AND/OR SEIZE DATA TRANSITING OR STORED ON THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM.

    ANY COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED THROUGH OR DATA STORED ON THIS INFORMATION SYSTEM MAY BE DISCLOSED OR USED FOR ANY U.S. GOVERNMENT-AUTHORIZED PURPOSE."

    So my laptop is part of the "Information Network," and as such, the Government can monitor or seize any data they want from it? Or am I just misunderstanding again? :shrug: :tinfoil:
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    Just to be clear, this is a standard USG warning banner. Nothing to see here.
     
    Boom Boom

    Boom Boom

    Hold my beer. Watch this.
    Jul 16, 2010
    16,834
    Carroll
    It's boiler-plate legal ease for anybody using federal government computer systems, including federal employees.
     
    j_h_smith

    j_h_smith

    Ultimate Member
    Jul 28, 2007
    28,516
    Big brother is always looking over your shoulder. :cool16:

    He's worse than Santa Claus, because he doesn't have to check his list twice.
     
    Hawkeye

    Hawkeye

    The Leatherstocking
    Jan 29, 2009
    3,971
    xref said:
    Just to be clear, this is a standard USG warning banner. Nothing to see here.
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    Exactly.

    And it is there because one of the very early computer hackers (I forget his name at the moment) was able to wiggle out of a conviction at one point because he said "hey, there was never anything telling me that I was on a Government system and wasn't supposed to be doing that." So now they put that thing everywhere so you can't try to claim ignorance.
     
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