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The Department of Finance sent a letter of official protest to the Computer Center, accusing the user sargon on the Minds system of instigating a Denial of Service attack on the Department itself. This letter was then passed on to both Dr WJ Smyth, President of the NUI; and to the acting head of the department of Computer Science, Mr Stephen Brown. This letter arrived this morning via the HEA.
Oh dear. That's worse than I thought. A flawless two-year record and now this .. I guess that applying to become minds.may.ie won't be looked on very kindly this year. ;o) Mind you, they do say there's no such thing as bad publicity. ;o)
On receipt of this letter Stephen Brown ordered taken down indefinitely; pending an official investigation by the Computer Science department.
This sounds ominous.
Therefore we have had to take action to protect the society.
Okay. Remember that MiNDS cannot be reasonably held accountable for the actions of its members, and that we do run quite a tight ship, security-wise. Also, this happened as a result of something the SU were doing, right? Do we have any assurance of support from them should things start looking really grim for us?
The best we can do is hope that the society get our machine back and resume our normal services that we have always offered to our members and other clubs and societies in Maynooth.
Indeed. I would be extremely upset to see this society go down the drain. A lot of work has gone into bringing it this far.
As Darragh stepped down, I am now the Acting Chairperson and Aidan Delaney has taken over his previous role as Acting Vice Chairperson. I have to write a letter to the Department apologising for our machine being used for this purpose and that this was actually against our own rules as we use the HEA system and we have operate under their regulations.
Okay, kudos for taking over in less than ideal circumstances, Dave & Aidan. Hopefully we can pull a good result out of all of this.
An EGM will be set up in the next few days, provisianally for next Wednesday, to discuss what has happened with the members.
Cool, we're meeting-crazy of late. :o) Cian -- "there is nothing wrong /* Cian with emulating a man ** I need to sleep. Let me sleep. who has a nice beard" */ while(student);