An assistant professor of visual communication and technology education at Bowling Green State University is confronted with network security and campus police after using Tor on his computer. Those of you who attend BGSU may recognize the name of the article’s author, Dr. Paul Cesarini.
All in all, it was an interesting article to read. Without knowing specifically whom from network security spoke with Dr. Cesarini, chances are I’ve spoken with them, due to my position in RCC at BGSU. I can see where someone using that sort of program would cause issues on the network, especially if the user was purposefully hiding their tracks. A big assumption I could make is that it wasn’t anyone in the residence halls they were speaking with, as I probably would have heard about it; then again, that’s an assumption, not a fact.
That is a benefit of working at a university. Had something like this happened in the “real world”, it could have easily led to someone’s termination, whereas in this case there was the benefit of arguing for academic freedom.
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