[BLU] Re: Wireless ethernet?
    John Chambers 
    jc at trillian.mit.edu
       
    Tue Aug 14 14:35:06 EDT 2001
    
    
  
--------
David Kramer wrote:
| On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 ccb at valinux.com wrote:
| > I was doing some work with MIT Bio a couple of months ago.  It's
| > pretty entertaining - there is a univerity policy that there is no
| > university-wide firewall.  Individual departments are encouraged to
| > remain as open as possible to the network but to apply local
| > perimeters as required.
|
| I interviewed for a position at MIT's Project Athena (essentially their
| intranet of computers around campus and in dorm rooms).  They told me
| there were no firewalls because all the hackers were on the inside.  I
| think that's a little naive, but it makes for a good joke.
Yep. Of course, in reality, only about half the hackers are
inside MIT. Well, really less than a third. Except when the
BLU meets there.
-
Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with
"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the
message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
    
    
More information about the Discuss
mailing list