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| 02-23-2005 | Previous edition: 02-22-2005 |
        
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Printer-friendly version Story drastically increased interest in Web siteBy Alysha DaytnerAssistant Campus Editor Dan Noland just wanted to make people aware. Since the Feb. 17 Exponent story on Noland’s Web site, more than 5,300 people have become aware of where they can be watched on Purdue's campus. Noland, now a Purdue graduate and software security analyst at Purdue Research Park, created the site featuring feeds from various surveillance cameras on campus to inform people of how they are being watched. The site, http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~nolandd/voyeurism.html, has since received more than 5,300 hits, 3,224 of them on Feb. 17 alone. Noland said there has never been such a drastic increase in hits since the site’s creation in spring 2003. "Every so often there will be something and I’ll get a burst of maybe 100 or 200," Noland said. "I’m just happy people are looking at it and thinking about it." As a result of the story, Noland received a great deal of feedback, all of it positive. "The article also resulted in friendly and observant people sending me links to at least five new cameras which have already been added to the page," Noland said. One of those people was Steve Foulkes, a senior in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Foulkes gave Noland the link to his club’s Web camera after reading the story. "I am president of the solar car team. (The Web camera) is a really nice, foolproof way to document how long some of our larger projects take," Foulkes said. "We just made the body to our new car this past weekend. People really like the Web cam; it’s a nice way to be able to just pull up a Web site and see what’s going on with the car." He said he wishes Purdue had more cameras throughout campus because it is a good way to watch progress around the University. Because all of the cameras are in public places, Foulkes’ advice to those who are concerned with the privacy issue is, "If you don’t want to be seen, don’t go out in public." Noland said he appreciates everyone who helps look for cameras on campus and he hopes people will continue to think about the issue of privacy and what is important. Printer-friendly version |
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