I was at Kresge Library today frantically printing out my homework, and I left my gmail account open on one of the computers (whoops). The person who must've hopped on the computer after me sent me this
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That's a definite violation of your university's Terms of Use. Search Oakland for the proper person in the IT dept., and give him an account of what happened, above a forward copy of the email the guy sent you.
Seriously, if the guy wanted to tap you on the shoulder and say you'd forgotten to log out, that's one thing. But for him to send you a message from your own account, and further to admit that he went through your messages, makes him an admitted criminal. At the very least, something like that would result in OU taking away his computing priveleges, and I've heard of stuff like this constituting breaking and entering or summat.
But even before you forward the harrassing email to the people in charge, change your password to something really hard to figure out. And DON'T email him, whatever you do. That would just provoke more weirdness.
Seriously, I shuddered. Everybody, *always log out of your webmail when you're on a public terminal!*
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Seriously, if the guy wanted to tap you on the shoulder and say you'd forgotten to log out, that's one thing. But for him to send you a message from your own account, and further to admit that he went through your messages, makes him an admitted criminal. At the very least, something like that would result in OU taking away his computing priveleges, and I've heard of stuff like this constituting breaking and entering or summat.
But even before you forward the harrassing email to the people in charge, change your password to something really hard to figure out. And DON'T email him, whatever you do. That would just provoke more weirdness.
Seriously, I shuddered. Everybody, *always log out of your webmail when you're on a public terminal!*
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