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Early in 2007, Peter Kiewit Computing Services completed a network security
assessment. As part of that assessment, we hired an outside firm to find ways
in which Dartmouth's assets could be at risk or lost. One of their
recommendations was for us to require people who use our network to
authenticate so that we would know who is using our resources.
This recommendation coincided with a U.S. government update to the CALEA
Act; see
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). This act
specifies that institutions who provide access to the Internet must be able to
provide federal agencies with information in the event of a subpoena.
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