Case Study #2:

Students were using a form of Instant Messenger to communicate with each other, even after System and Network Administrators thought they had Instant Messenger locked down so that it could not be used. 

In a message between the two students, one of the students noted, “I’m ready today, I brought in my gun.” When an alert occurred on the word “gun”, the Technology Coordinator immediately began drilling down on other recent communications for this student, using the drilldown-by-user facility. 

Pieced together was a plot between several students to take revenge on other students who had recently shot up the athletic awards case.