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What is this world coming to when you can't even trust URLs on Post-it notes on your dorm-room door?

The Daily Free Press reports somebody went around the Warren Towers dorms, posting sticky notes on people's doors with a Web link that, when tapped on a phone, downloaded pornographic images.


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But shady direct marketing was really common in the freshman dorms when I was at BU. Basically, a company would pay a student in the dorm to either be their direct marketer, shoving flyers under doors, or they'd get a student to sign them in so they could shove flyers under doors.

Just about every week, you'd get a flyer for some nightclub/event or takeout menus shoved under your door or tucked behind the nametag your RA made for your door.

People also did this for University events and/or pranks, but I am thinking complusory porn downloads is so far outside of the behavior code that it is neither.

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Should have posted the links on tissues infused with lotion instead.

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The linked-to police report also includes this item: "A caller reported at 7:27 p.m. on Wednesday that an RA and RA supervisor had forced everyone out of the women’s bathroom on the 16th floor of A Tower at 700 Commonwealth Ave. The responding officer reported blood present, all showers running, all lockers open and a toilet containing a laptop, a notebook and a teddy bear."

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I don't think adam was burying the lede - he probably felt that being titilated by the aftermath of a student's nervous breakdown would be kind of gross.

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Knowing that some student had a breakdown might be newsworthy, since a trend there might tell us about a problem that needs something done about it.

The details seem just cheap sensationalism, and harassing of the student.

Other students will know who had a breakdown. They don't need help with gossip to make the environment more hostile for the student returning.

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On the list of possible outcomes of going to a random URL written on a post it note, downloading porn is a pretty minor one... I wouldn't be surprised if there was something more nefarious and less detectable on these phones too.

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Link, please?

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n/t

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