[BLU] Re: Wireless ethernet?

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

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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.

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