Okay I dont consider myself a "hacker" or whatever, I just like knowing things that most dont! That leads to my unusual "surfing" habbits, I search through a lot of "hacker/cracker" websites, forums, etc...

I was just wondering since I live on campus, connected to a backbone LAN (that you have to register your MAC Address with), do you think they monitor stuff like that? Also can that get me in trouble? If they are watching the things I do on the internet, how can I stop this ie encryption or something of the sort...